The 32 forms of Ganapati

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Bala Ganapati	This form depicts Ganesa as a child. The body is red colored. He has four hands carrying in them a plantain, a mango, a jack fruit and a stalk of sugarcane; with a sweet cake in his trunk.
Taruna Ganapati	This form depicts Ganesa as a young man. He has eight hands carrying in them a noose, a goad, round cake of flour, wood apple fruit, rose apple fruit.
Baktha Ganapati	White in color, shining like moon. In his four hands, he carries a coconut, a mango, a plantain and a bowl full of jaggery porridge.
Veera Ganapati	Also called as VEERA VIGNESHA exhibits the martial spirit with several weapons in his sixteen hands. He is pale red in body colour. VEERA VIGNESHA is three eyed with a crescent moon the head.
Sakthi Ganapati	Worshiping of this aspects is said to benefit you with special powers or gives desired fruits quickly. Ganesa is four armed, embracing with two arms a feminine consort (Devi-Sakthi) green in body.
Dhavaja Ganapati	Also called as DHAVAJA GANAPATI; is bright white, like the full moon. He is four headed and four armed carrying a book of scripture and a holy water pot.
Siddha Ganapati	This form has four hands carrying ripe mango, bunch of flowers , sugarcane stalk and sesamum sweet cake. A battle axe or the sweet cake are held by the trunk.
Sankata Hara Ganapati	He has four hands. This form is fair complexioned dressed in deep blues, decorated with jewels and holding a lotus in hand.
Ucchista Ganapati	Ucchista-Ganapati is associated with unclean things like orts, whose worship belongs to vamacara ( the left handed path ie. the hetrodox and unclean path) and said to give quick results. Ucchista Ganapati, sculpted as naked, is dark coloured, four arms carrying blue lotus; Lute (Veena); paddy grain stalk and rosary. Pomegranate fruit is held in his trunk. Ganapati is red coloured in body with three eyes.
Vighna Ganapati	Burnished gold in body color, well decorated with ornaments, in his ten arms.
Kshipra Ganapati	Red in body color and four armed carrying tusk, Kalpalata (wish fulfilling creeper); noose and a pot of jewels.
Heramba Ganapati	With five heads, three eyes(each face), ten hands, and rides a lion, his complexion is extremely white in this form
Lakshmi Ganapati	He is found in the Visvanatha Swami temple at Tenkasi, built by a Pandya king. Ganapati in his form is fair complexioned and resembles the flow of nectar.
Maha Ganapati	This form is the one worshiped maximum by the Ganapatayas. The body color is reddish, crescent moon adores the head, Ganesa is three eyed in this form.
Vijaya Ganapati	He is mounted on a mouse, four armed carrying a noose, goad, tusk and a mango fruit. He is also called as BHUVUNESA GANAPATI.
Nritya Ganapati	This form is found at Halebidu in the Hoysaleshvara temple. It is a very fine piece of sculpture and perfect in modelling. In his four hands, he carries a noose, a goad, a battle axe and tusk. In this form his trunk holds round shaped cake made of dough.
Ordhva Ganapati	He is golden color and his feminine consort is light green colored . He carries a Kalhara flower, paddy stalk, lotus, bow of sugar stalk , arrow, tusk and mace; the eighth hand is wound round his consort.
Ekakshara Ganapati	He is clad in red garments decorated with flowers. His seat is of lotus and his ornaments are of snakes. His body is soft with oily substances.
Vara Ganapati	He is bright red colored in body . his trunk holds a pot of wealth.
Tryakshara Ganapati	He is golden colored with large fanning ears and four arms.
Shipra Prasada Ganapati	He is seated on a mat of lotus. In his from, he is the storm that drives away the obstacles.
Harida Ganapati	A manifestation of Ganapati, who offers protection to his devotees. The body in his form is yellow in color.
Eka Danta Ganapati	Dark colored, protuding belly, standing in pose, his four hands hold an axe, a rosary, sweets Laddu and the tusk.
Shrshti Ganapati	This Ganapati is skilled in creation.
Uddanda Ganapati	A fair complexioned feminine consort, sitting on the lap of Ganesa is holding a lotus. Ganesa who is red in body color, has twelve hands.
Rna-Mochaka Ganapati	To bless riddance of indebtedness is the boon of this Ganapati, who is crystal white.
Dundhi Ganapati	This is a special form limited to Varnasi, India.
Dvi Mukha Ganapati	Greenish blue Ganapati has two heads, who wears red garments and a bejewelled crown on his head.
Simha Ganapati	He has lion's head. His body is bright white like moon. He has eight arms .
Durga Ganapati	He has eight hands, which carry the flaming goad arrow, rosary, tusk on the right side and on left hands, he carries a noose, bow, wish fulfilling creeper and rose apple.
Tri Mukha Ganapati	He is three headed Ganapati and seated on lotus shaped splendid throne of lotus.
Yogha Ganapati	Ganesa in this form is in yoga posture, sitting cross legged. He is in a meditative mood in this form.