Adi Vinayaka

Sources present Adi Vinayaka as the form of Ganesha that portrays him with a human head created by the goddess Parvati to guard her. Puranic accounts included in the sources relate that Shiva, not recognizing the boy, decapitated him when denied access to Parvati; the subsequent restoration narrative (Shiva procuring an elephant head) is part of the same legend. Adi Vinayaka is treated in the literature as a named, primordial/formal aspect of Ganesha — a remembered phase in the deity's mythic biography rather than a separate being (Wikipedia; Pancharatana stotram preface).

Textual and temple evidence describes Adi Vinayaka as an anthropomorphic depiction of Ganesha with a human head (Nara Mukha, 'human-faced'). A cited temple source reports a four-foot statue identified as Adi Vinayaka housed in a separate shrine at the Nandrudayan Vinayaka Temple; the provided materials do not elaborate further on iconographic garments, attributes, posture, or attendant beings (Wikipedia; Nandrudayan Vinayaka Temple article).

The supplied sources do not attribute powers or behaviors to Adi Vinayaka that are distinct from the broader theological attributes of Ganesha. General Ganesha theology in the Pancharatana stotram preface emphasizes Ganesha's primacy in ritual efficacy (e.g., other gods pay homage to him), but the texts and temple references given do not describe unique supernatural abilities, modes of interaction, or distinct behavioral narratives for the Adi form specifically.