Ranjangaon is a village located at a distance of about 50 km from Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

, en route to Shirur

Shirur

Shirur may refer to:* Shirur, Maharashtra - a city in Pune district of Maharastra* Shirur tehsil - a tehsil in Pune district of Maharastra* Shirur - a village in Karnataka* Shirur, Maharashtra - a Taluka in Beed district of Maharashtra...

 in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, and it houses a shrine to Mahaganapati

Ranjangaon Ganpati

Ranjangaon Ganpati is one among the Ashtavinayak, celebrating eight instances of legends related to Ganesha.According to the history the temple was built in between 9th and 10th century. Madhavrao Peshwa made a room in the basement of the temple to keep the idol of the lord Ganesh. Later on...

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The Mahaganapati is considered to be one of the Ashtavinayaka shrines of Maharashtra, celebrating eight instances of legends related to Ganesha

Ganesha

Ganesha , also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh, also known as Ganapati , Vinayaka , and Pillaiyar , is one of the deities best-known and most widely worshipped in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India and Nepal. Hindu sects worship him regardless of affiliations...

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Mahaganapati at Ranjangaon is believed to have come to the aid of Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 in destroying the citadels of the demon Tripurasura. According to history, the temple was built between 9th & 10th century. Madhavrao Peshwa

Madhavrao Peshwa

Thorle Madhavrao Peshwa was fourth Peshwa of the Maratha Empire.-Early life and ascendancy to Peshwa:...

made a room in the basement of the temple to keep the idol of the lord Ganesh.