Mudgalapurana 1.21: gaṇeśastotrottamavarṇane ekaviṃśatitamo'dhyāyaḥ

Homage to the venerable Gaṇeśa.

Śaunaka said: / “How was the praise made by him to the great-souled Gaṇeśa? / Tell that to me, O highly fortunate one; you are considered omniscient by the wise.”

Sūta said: / “I will tell you with a devoted mind / that praise of Gaṇeśa, O sage, which was made by Mudgala.”

Mudgala said: / “How can I praise you, O Gaṇādhyakṣa? You cannot be praised by the Vedas, / nor by the lords of yogins led by Brahmā; yet I speak according to my understanding, O Lord.

By the power of seeing you I am capable, there is no doubt; / by your grace, indeed, all become able to praise.

Homage to you, to Gaṇeśa, the primal abundance of all, supreme Lord of the supreme, transcending the Vedas, / the supreme master of illusion, who bewilders the illusionists, the immeasurable, yet who can be counted; homage indeed to you!

Homage to you who are praised constantly by the purāṇas and other scriptures, who are praised by the chiefs of gods led by Śiva, / who are free from distinctions of beginning, end, and middle, consisting of manifold forms, the Lord of all!

Homage to the yogin who through yoga assumes the forms of the course of the eight million [and four hundred thousand] wombs; / homage to you who have become food, who are the source of all, possessing infinite parts, the bestower of nourishment!

Homage to you whose form is the earth, bearer of manifold divisions, the supporter, the eternal; / whose essential form is the lord of waters, bestower of satisfaction, devoid of that shape, the essence, the abode!

Homage to the flash of lights, O Ḍhuṇḍhi, to the light, the enjoyer, who abides in all; / homage to you whose form is wind, the impeller, whose nature is movement, distinct from that [movement]!

Homage to you who are one's true nature, the brilliant, full light, giver of Brahman consisting of the elements and so forth;

[khaṇḍa 1, adhyāya 21, page 50] homage to you, O Lord, whose essential nature is gross enjoyment, who consist of the waking state, characterized by passion!

Homage to you who consist of the illusion of dream, yet of subtle form, dwelling inside all; / homage to the cause, giver of Brahman in both states, the equal, enjoyer of deep sleep; homage to you!

Homage to you who are the form of the support of consciousness, giver of effort, giver of the three enjoyments; / to the Lord of qualities, the stream of consciousness, homage to you, O Self, whose form is sound and who are time!

Homage to you whose form is the bindu, who have a curved face; homage to you whose sport is the illusion of the body; / homage to you whose nature is consciousness, who bestow [the realization] ‘I am He’, whose essential nature is the formless embodied one!

Always Ekadanta, transcending birth, supreme, void, slayer of Daityas, / enemy of arrogance and other vices, mouse-bannered, homage to you who are accomplished without beginning, the wielder of māyā!”

Homage to you whose form is knowledge, the giver of varied sport, complete and omnipresent; / homage to you who causes the distinction between the illusionist and illusion, whose form is ever consciousness, O great-souled one!

Homage to the form of Sāṅkhya among embodied beings, transcendent, devoid of selfish enjoyment, O God; / homage to you who have forever become the absolute Brahman, free from mundane knowledge, full of wisdom!

Homage to you whose form is one's own self, giver of bliss, whose form is absorption, whose essence is silence; / homage to you who are attained through yoga known to oneself, who awaken the self, sovereign of all!

Homage to the creator of the illusion of the twenty-five [principles] and more, manifoldly divided into four parts, O possessor of qualities; / whose body is the unreal form, whose essence is energy, homage to you whose manifold nature consists of non-difference, difference, and the like!

Homage to the form of existence, whose essence is the sun, who ever awakens the self, bearer of illusion; / homage to you, the unbroken nectar, non-dual, the ever time of time, the giver of liberation!

Homage to the form of Viṣṇu, giver of bliss, equanimous, the creator of both his own illusion and the world; / infinite, free from difference and the rest, the plenitude, yet ever appearing as difference, the self of all!

Homage to the form of Śambhu, giver of the "not this, not this" [insight], ever free from delusion, the three-eyed one; / to you whose supreme Brahman nature is the fourth state illumined through threefold illusion, O Dhūmravarṇa!

O unifier who brings about non-difference among the four, sovereign of obstacles through self-knowledge; / ever standing on the side of your own devotee, O Gaṇādhīśa, slayer of the great Daityas!

Homage to you whose form is action, the creator of action and the rest, giver of enjoyment to people through their own actions and the like; / homage to you whose form is knowledge, giver of non-attachment, ever free from action, absolute!

Homage to you who bestow equanimity upon both, who are impartial, and through yoga give bliss; / homage to you who grant natural identity with Brahman, possessing three abodes, beyond the three, giver of satisfaction!

Ever the protector of the four states, having the form of your own self, maker of union, / boundless, ruler over the groups of the fourfold varieties—O Heramba, homage to you!

Homage to you who are non-yoga, devoid of illusion, whose form is ever beyond mundane bliss; / whose form is cessation, distinct, homage to you who abide in absorption whose form is yoga!

Homage to Gaṇeśa whose form is the peace of yoga, who gives peace, who is yoga itself; / ever the giver of Brahman to the knowers of Brahman, Lord of all, Master of the hordes, homage to Jyeṣṭharāja!

[Sec. 1, ch. 21, p. 51] Homage to Brahmā, the creator of the world, ever bearing passion, creator of the Vedas, scriptures, and the like; / ever devoid of creation, equanimous, the supreme abode; homage to the wielder of illusion, abiding in the middle state!

Homage to the form of purity, who preserves the world through the manifestation of Viṣṇu, bearer of illusion; / homage to you, devoid of purity, transcendent over all, Lord of poets, destroyer of obstacles, homage to you!

Homage to the dark-natured one, the destroyer, who kindles the three eyes, bearer of power; / ever having the form of time, giver of Kailāsa, whose form is free from darkness, O Lambodara!

Homage to you, the primary seed of actions; homage to you whose form is the sun, full of fiery energy; / the sun that knows the three divisions of time, the plenitude, devoid of outward lights, O Heramba, homage to you!

Homage to the form of energy, giver of delusion, base of action, the manifold illusion; / bearing the play of infinite forms; homage to you, devoid of energy, O Lord of Siddhi!

Homage to the form of the moon, giver of nourishment by means of digits to the beings residing in the three worlds; / bearer of nectar, light of the constellations and the rest, yet yourself devoid of food, O Ḍhuṇḍhi!

Homage to you whose form is desire, the enemy of desire; homage to you whose trunk has the shape of an elephant; / ever praised by deities beginning with Hari and Indra, and worshipful to the great ones beginning with Śuka!

Non-eternal and eternal, O God of gods, desiring yet bestowing the state of desirelessness; / ever worshipful by all, sovereign of all, praised by Varuṇa, Indra, Śeṣa, and the rest!

Homage to the son of Kaśyapa, and to Kapila, to the son of Vareṇya, to the son of Parāśara; / homage to the son of Śambhu, born from the side, enjoyer of devotion, O Gaṇādhīśa, homage to you!

Homage to you, the son of the wife of Mādhava; homage to the mother of all, homage to the father of all; / homage to the son of all, the self of all; homage to you who are all in all, consisting of all varieties!

Homage, O bearer of the noose; homage, O bearer of the tusk, who carries the goad, giver of eternal bliss; / homage to the giver of sons, grandsons, and kingdoms; homage to you who bestow enjoyment and liberation!

Homage, O you of infinite power, Lord of the qualities, Mayūreśa, Lord of yoga, Master of illusion; / homage to you whose form is unmanifest and clearly manifest, O tusked one, who are delusion embodied in elephant shape!

Homage to the single form, yet source of manifold divisions, protector against obstacles, bearer of the trunk; / having no lord, the lord of the gods and others, the abode of all souls, homage to you indeed!

Homage to you whose body has the form of the word "Thou", homage to your trunk having the form of the word "That"; / whose body is employed as the form "art" representing the oneness of the two, the visible, splendid abode, homage to you!

Homage to you by whom Siddhi is held on the left side, the mother of the delusion and illusion of people; / by whom Buddhi is ever held on the right flank, whose form is "art", neither male nor female, homage to you!

Homage to Bhrāmarī, the power underlying the word "Thou", ever identical with the word "That" as the fulfiller of desires; / who dwell in their unity within the city named Self-knowledge, situated in the head of these [powers]!

Where there is unbroken nectar, sweet water, situated in the ocean named the Sugarcane [Sea], homage to you; / and in your supportless form, by the drinking thereof, you bestow neither maleness nor femaleness, playing here!

Homage to you, giver of bliss to people who ever hear the three syllables "Ga-ṇe-śa"; / for those who utter it once there is no birth and death; to the boundless supreme light, the Lord Ḍhuṇḍhi!

[Sec. 1, ch. 22, p. 52] It is no wonder that your worshippers become Brahman, and by their touch bestow Brahman upon people; / worshipped by the chief of the gods and others, they become the very form of Gaṇeśa. Homage, homage to you, O Gaṇeśa!

Sūta said: / Having thus praised the Lord Gaṇeśa, Mudgala maintained silence; / seizing Gaṇeśa's feet, he fell prostrate on the ground like a staff.

Raising his devotee up, he embraced him with great affection; / Gajānana, pleased in heart, spoke to that great sage:

Gaṇeśa said:
And this hymn of praise about me that you composed in my presence
will be renowned as the supreme hymn of praise; there is no doubt.

Whoever praises me with this supreme hymn of praise, to him I give liberation along with enjoyment
and firm devotion to me; of this there is no doubt.

That best of men meets neither distress nor disease;
I grant indeed all sons, grandsons, wealth, and grain.

Destructive magic, eradication, and the like are destroyed by recitation
twenty-one times, and up to that many days.

Afflictions arising from imprisonment and the like are destroyed by recitation;
a man exceedingly dear to me attains his heart's desire.

Now, ask boons of me; bound by devotion, I will give them.
There is none equal to you in knowing my heart; I always remain under your control.

Om tat sat. Thus ends the twenty-first chapter, entitled 'Description of the Supreme Hymn of Praise to Gaṇeśa', in the deeds of Vakratuṇḍa in the first section of the glorious and venerable Maudgala Mahāpurāṇa, a Purāṇic Upaniṣad.