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Rh images. The elephant head has only one tusk in full and the other appears cut off in the middle, which is supposed to have resulted in a scuffle between Ganesa and Parasurama. The “ belly-god”’ is on this account called Ekadanta, or the single-tusked. Ganesa is said to have written the Mahabharata at the dictation of Vyasa—for it is said that the latter was so quick in repeating the epic that no mortal could have managed to follow him.