Mahaganapati of Ranjangaon

Mahāgaṇapati of Ranjangaon (Pune district) — the eighth and final Ashtavinayak. Mahāgaṇapati is the form Shiva worshipped before his own battle against Tripurāsura. The temple is built so that on Śayana and Uttarāyaṇa ends of the year, the first rays of the sun fall directly on the mūrti — Chola-era solar-alignment architecture transplanted to Maharashtra. The mūrti (Mahāgaṇapati) is said to have ten trunks and twenty arms, though the publicly worshipped outer form is a standard two-armed image;