Puranic Stories · Other Puranas & Sacred Texts
The Padma Purana identifies the source of this devastating fire directly: Analasura, a demon capable of shooting flames from his own eyes, whose rampage brought Shree Ganesh into direct confrontation with a threat unlike any other in this collection.
A Demon of Pure Destructive Fire
Analasura's very name draws from "anala," fire, reflecting a demon whose power lay entirely in flame: a threat that spread destruction wherever his gaze fell, requiring a response equal to the danger he posed.
A Battle Won by Absorption, Not Combat
Rather than meeting Analasura's fire with an opposing weapon, Shree Ganesh's ultimate victory came through swallowing the demon's destructive flame entirely, internalizing a danger too vast and consuming for ordinary battle to resolve.
What Devotees Seek
Analasura's defeat stands as one of Shree Ganesh's most striking demonstrations of a recurring theme throughout his stories: that some threats are overcome not through force returned in kind, but through the capacity to absorb and contain what would otherwise consume everything in its path.