In Hinduism, the river Ganges is considered sacred and is personified as the goddess Gaṅgā.Some of Her other names include Jahnavi, Nikita, Jaahnukanya, Sapteshwari, Sureshwari, Bhagvati, Urvijaya, Chitraani, Tridhara, Bhaagirathi, Shubhra, Vaishnavi, Vishnupadi, Bhagvatpadi, Tripathaga, Payoshnika, Mahabhadra, Mandaakini, Meghna, …
The Ganges flows only 200 km through the Himalayas. The river touches plain land in the Rishikesh region near Haridwar in Uttarakhand.Then it passes through the towns of Kanpur, Soron, Kannauj, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Ghazipur, Bhagalpur, Mirzapur, Ballia, Buxar, Saidpur, and Chunar.
The rivers of India are the main source of living of the Indian people.
Pollution has turned the sacred waters into a lethal cocktail of industrial and human waste. Can the river be saved?
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Delta: Delta, low-lying plain that is composed of stream-borne sediments deposited by a river at its mouth. A brief treatment of deltas follows. For full treatment, see river…
These are the great Tilopa’s oral instructions. On the completion of the twelve hardships, Tilopa taught these on the banks of the river Ganges to the Kashmiri pandit, the wise and learned Naropa.
The last part of a river. A river usually ends by flowing into an ocean, a lake or a bigger river. The place where the river flows out into a bigger body of water is called the ‘mouth’ of the river.
The Ganges (/ ˈ ɡ æ n dʒ iː z / GAN-jeez), also known as Ganga (Hindustani: [ˈɡəŋɡaː]), is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.
Thanks so much for writing about my country, to add on…It’s said that River Ganga’s water will never be spoiled for years. For example, its a belief to pour at least few drops of Ganga water into dead peoples mouth (people who are in South India or far away from Ganges).
