The Lord Indra requested
Lord Brahma to create a beautiful woman.Soon lord Brahma from a mole on
his body,created a woman who was named as Tilottama.Tilottama was the most
beautiful,fair and blue eyed woman.Indra was impressed and fell for her.
Due to this,the power of Indra got
disintigrated in to three parts and created three demons.Mahapap,Sankat
and Shatru'.The demons worshipped Lord Shiva and in blessings got the
possesion of Heaven,Earth and Patal(below the earth) respectively.
After getting the power the demons were
out of control and started troubling the people.The people under the
guidence of Sage Mudgal,decided to pray Lord Ganesha to get relief from
the demons.
Sage mudgal requested Lord Shiva and Mata
Parvati to get transformed in to a 'Shami' tree and called all the
people to pray to Ganesha by seating below the tree.After a long chant of
mantras and prayers Lord Ganesha appeared.Ganesha killed the three demons
with three arrows on a bow at a time.Soon Ganesha got merged in to the 'shami'
tree roots.
The relieved people lauded Ganesha by
chanting slogans,'Jay Shami Vighnesh' and the shrine established there was
named accordingly.
This statue is of marble and the trunk
turned on the right side.The temple is at the Adhasa village, about ten
kilometers from Katol .