The Hymn Runahara Ganapati Stotra is from the great Tantric text Krishna  Yamala tantra.  Runahara means he who destroys debts. Through this hymn  the lord is worshipped as the one who frees us from our debts.



Ganesha  is worshipped as the supreme reality (parabrahman) in this hymn. This  hymn describes how and when different gods and goddesses like brahma,  Vishnu, Rudra, Durga, Surya (the sun god), Chandra the moon god)  worshipped Ganesha for attaining success in their endeavors and obtain  what they wish for.  By this the supremacy of lord ganesha is well  established.



The incidents of various gods and goddesses  worshipping lord ganesha is well described in the Ganesha Upanishad  (Brahma worships lord Ganesha in the beginning of creation) , in the  herambha Upanishad ( Lord shiva describes that he worshipped ganesha to  gain the power to destroy the tripuras), Ganesha purana, Mudgala purana,  vinayaka tantra etc describes various gods worshipping ganesha for  gaining success in their endeavors.



Since every shloka in this  hymn has ‘ṛṇanāśaṃ karotu me’ - May he do the act of destroying the  debts for me. This hymn can be understood as the praise and prayer to  the form ‘ṛṇa mochana Ganapati’, but each verse of the hymn indicates  and represents different forms of Ganapati worshipped by different gods  and goddesses.

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