The Mudgala Purana uses these incarnations to express complex philosophical concepts associated with the progressive creation of the world.
Granoff[4] provides a summary of the philosophical meaning of each incarnation within the framework of the Mudgala Purana; along with the philosophy, typical Puranic themes of battles with demons provide much of the story line.
Courtright, says that the Mudgala Purana dates from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries but he gives no reason for this.
She says that the kernel of the text must be old and that it must have continued to receive interpolations until the 17th and 18th centuries as the worship of Ganapati became more important in certain regions.
This is the case with the Mudgala Purana, so it is necessary to review multiple editions, which may differ from one another in significant ways.