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Ganga is a consort to all three major male deities of Hinduism. [81] As Brahma's partner she always travels with him in the form of water in his kamandalu (water-pot). [81] She is also Vishnu's consort. [81] Not only does she emanate from his foot as Vishnupadi in the avatarana story, but is also, with Sarasvati and Lakshmi, one of his co-wives ...
The Ganga is also called the Ganga Mata (Mother), and is revered in Hindu worship and culture, venerated for her forgiveness of sins and capacity to cleanse mankind. [15] Unlike various other goddesses, she has no destructive or fearsome aspect, destructive though she might be as a river in nature. [15] She is also a mother to other gods. [13]
Brahma ordered her to deposit the Vadavagni in the western ocean. Saraswati agreed, and accompanied by Ganga, she left Brahmaloka, and arrived at Sage Uttanka's ashrama. There, she met Shiva, who had decided to carry Ganga. He gave the Vadavagni in a pot to Saraswati, and told her to originate from the plaksha tree. Saraswati merged with the ...
The Himalayas are also considered to be the father of the goddess Ganga (the personification of river Ganges). [83] Two of the most sacred places of pilgrimage for the Hindus are the temple complex in Pashupatinath and Muktinath , also known as Shaligrama because of the presence of the sacred black rocks called shaligrams .
Devprayag (Deva prayāga) is a town and a nagar panchayat, near New Tehri city in Tehri Garhwal District [1] [2] in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and is the final one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda meets the Bhagirathi river and both rivers thereafter flow on as the Ganges river or Ganga.
The river is said to represent Ganga or the River Ganges emerging from Shiva's head. This provides the basis for an alternative interpretation of the mural. Rather than Arjuna, the figure performing austerities is said to be Bhagiratha. Bhagiratha is said to have performed austerities so that Ganga might descend to earth and wash over the ashes ...
Image credits: thootly #5 Orangutans Self-Medicate. A Sumatran Orangutan in Indonesia has been observed healing a nasty wound on its face by making a paste from a native plant known to locals as ...
The Sarasvati by this time had become a underground river, and the name was transferred to the Ghaggar which disappeared in the desert. [23] The later Rigvedic Sarasvati is only in the post-Rigvedic Brahmanas said to disappear in the sands. According to Kocchar the Ganga and Yamuna were small streams in the vicinity of the Harut River.