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A popular paean to the Ganga is the Ganga Lahiri composed by a 17th-century poet Jagannatha who, legend has it, was turned out of his Hindu Brahmin caste for carrying on an affair with a Muslim woman. Having attempted futilely to be rehabilitated within the Hindu fold, the poet finally appeals to Ganga, the hope of the hopeless, and the ...
Ganga is mentioned in the Rigveda, the earliest and theoretically the holiest of the Hindu scriptures. Ganga is mentioned in the Nadistuti (Rigveda 10.75), which lists the rivers from east to west. In RV 6.45.31, the word Ganga is also mentioned, but it is not clear if the reference is to the river. RVRV 3.58.6 says that "your ancient home ...
Ganga, a 2017 Indian Tamil-language supernatural soap opera; Ganga (music), a type of rural folk singing from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro; Daren Ganga (born 1979), a West Indies cricketer; Ganga, a stage name for Danish electronic musician Christian Rønn; Ganga Rani, Queen of Bhaktapur
Ganga-Jamuni is a combination of two Hindi words that means, literally, "mixed", "composite", or "alloy". [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The term additionally references the Ganga and Jamuna rivers, that merge to form one entity, just as two cultures come "together to form a seamless single culture that draws richly from both traditional Hindu and ...
The Middle Ganga Plain stretches to the east of the Upper Ganga plain and forms part of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It covers an area of 1.44 km 2 (0.56 sq mi), stretching 330 km (210 mi) in north–south direction and 600 km (370 mi) in the east–west direction. The elevation varies from 100 m (330 ft) in the western boundary to 30 m (98 ...
The word gaṇa (Sanskrit: गण Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɡɐ.ɳɐ́]) in Sanskrit and Pali means "flock, troop, multitude, number, tribe, category, series, or class". It can also be used to refer to a "body of attendants" and can refer to "a company, any assemblage or association of men formed for the attainment of the same aims".
Move over, Wordle and Connections—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on ...
In Sultanganj, Ganga is uttarvahini for almost half kilometers, where the holy Ajgaivinath Temple is situated. Every year during the holy month of Sawan, millions of devotees of Lord Shiva take the water of holy river as ‘Ganga Jal’ to 110 km from here to Baba Baidyanath Dham or Baidyanath Temple, for the ‘Jal Abhishek’. [5] [6] [7]