Vanasthalī-madhyagata-gaja-grahaṇa Of all the prayogas inone is stranger than the one tucked into the details on Mahāgaṇapati: a complete ritual-engineering manual for trapping wild elephants in the deep forest. It begins, as elephant-work should, with the elephant-faced god. The preparatory worship. Before any trap is built, the practitioner performs the elaborate catur-āvṛtti tarpaṇa of Mahāgaṇapati — four rounds of libation to the god, his consorts (Rati, the flower-arrowe