He is also a woman

He is also a woman

 

There is also another philosophical meaning for him being with one tusk. Male elephant only has tusk. Female elephant does not have. To show that he is both male and female, i.e. the god principle is neither male nor female exclusively, but one that appears as these both.—therefore a part of his face is the male elephant with the tusk, and another is the female elephant without the tusk. The god Siva and goddess have given a pose called ardhanadeeswara in which they are half male and half female in the same body. Similarly vigneswarar, their son, shows that pose. In order not to copy in the same way, in the parents pose the right side is male and the left side female. In vigneswara, the right side is the female without the tusk, and the left is the male elephant with the tusk!

 

First sumukar – with a good mouth. Next ekadantar – without one tusk inside that mouth. Child means, its milk teeth should have fallen? We call that teeth less smile, with some fun. The first son of the mother and father of the universe – parvati and parameswar – smiles with a good face, with its mouth without one teeth.