sentences:  The text is also significant to the history of Buddhism and Jainism, since Ganesha is found in their mythologies and theology as well.The Ganesha Purana and the Mudgala Purana are the two late Puranas (c. AD 1300–1600).Stietencron suggests the more likely period of composition may be 15th- to 18th-century, during a period of conflict between the Hindu Maratha and Islamic Sultanates in Maharashtra.