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The Girijaatmaja Vinayak temple at Lenayadri is located at Lekhan hills, 160 km from Pune enroute to Nasik.The legend surrounding Ganesha's birth, of Parvati creating a young boy from the dirt of her body and desiring to the lad as an infant, resorted to meditation. Her desire was granted and Ganesha is said to have reincarnated himself as an infant and lived in the Lenayadri hills for 12 years.

Lenyadri, also called Ganesa Lena, Ganesh Pahar Caves, are a series of about 30 rock-cut Buddhist caves, located about 4.8 kilometres (3.0 mi) north of Junnar in Pune district in Maharashtra. The caves date between the 1st and 3rd century AD and belong to the Hinayana Buddhism tradition.Twenty-six of the caves are individually numbered. The caves face to the south and are numbered serially from east to west.Two of the central cells of Cave 7 – originally a Buddhist vihara – were at an unknown later date adapted for the worship of Lord Ganesha. According to mythology, this is the Girijatmaja cave where goddess Parvati desired to be a mother and where Ganesha was born. An irregularly carved image is the object of worship here and the stone temple is located on a hill accessed through a flight of 238 steps.

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