Crossword clues for ganges
ganges
- Pack’s overtaking East Asian runner
- Indian river
- In Scotland go south, crossing eastern river
- Hindus' most sacred river
- Asian river
- Sacred Indian river
- Sacred river
- River of India
- It flows from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal
- River that flows into the Bay of Bengal
- River sacred to over a billion
- Its head is in the Himalayas
- India's longest river
- Holy river
- Allahabad's river
- Hindus' holy river
- Destination of some pilgrims
- River to the Bay of Bengal
- River mentioned in the Rig Veda
- An Asian river
- Rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal
- A sacred river of Hindu India
- Act as a gang
- Sacred Hindu river
- Sacred river of India
- Groups of workmen embracing oriental sacred flower
- Sacred Asian river
- River flowing into the Bay of Bengal
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Sanskrit ganga "current, river."
Wikipedia
The Ganges , also Ganga is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh. The river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and flows south and east through the Gangetic Plain of North India into Bangladesh, where it empties into the Bay of Bengal. It is the third largest river in the world by discharge.
The Ganges is the most sacred river to Hindus. It is also a lifeline to millions of Indians who live along its course and depend on it for their daily needs. It is worshipped as the goddess Ganga in Hinduism. It has also been important historically, with many former provincial or imperial capitals (such as Pataliputra, Kannauj, Kara, Kashi, Patna, Hajipur, Munger, Bhagalpur, Murshidabad, Baharampur, Kampilya, and Kolkata) located on its banks.
The Ganges was ranked as the fifth most polluted river of the world in 2007. Pollution threatens not only humans, but also more than 140 fish species, 90 amphibian species and the endangered Ganges river dolphin. The Ganga Action Plan, an environmental initiative to clean up the river, has been a major failure thus far, due to corruption, lack of technical expertise, poor environmental planning, and lack of support from religious authorities.
The name "Ganges", ending in "-es", came to English via Latin from Ancient Greek sources, particularly from accounts of Alexander the Great's wars, which entered India.
Ganges is a river in India.
Ganges may also refer to:
Ganges is a nature documentary series for television on the natural history of the River Ganges in India and Bangladesh. As well as the variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 2,510 km (1,557 mi) reach, the programmes also feature the cultures, traditions and religions of the very large human population that it supports. For Hindus, the Ganges is a sacred river and a place of pilgrimage, a deep influence on their religion and culture as well as being their lifeblood. Over the course of three episodes, the series is presented as a journey from the source of the river in the high Himalaya to its delta at the Bay of Bengal.
Ganges is narrated by actor/playwright Sudha Bhuchar and produced by the BBC Natural History Unit, in association with the Travel Channel and France 3. The series producer is Ian Gray. It was first broadcast on BBC Two in August 2007 and formed part of the BBC’s “India and Pakistan ‘07” season, marking the 60th anniversary of independence from British rule and the partitioning of India and Pakistan.
The format was previously used by the BBC for earlier documentary series on the world's major river systems, including Congo (2001) and Nile (2004).
Many vessels named Ganges, after the Ganges river in India, have served the British East India Company (EIC) between the 17th and 19th centuries.
- Ganges (1676 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
- Ganges (1703 ship), sloop of the Bengal Pilot Service
- Ganges (1778 ship), an East Indiaman that made six voyages for the EIC and that was sold for breaking up in 1795.
- Ganges (1792 ship), not an East Indiaman, but did make two voyages under contract to the EIC, (one 1796 and the other in 1801), and one voyage transporting convicts to Australia in 1797.
- Ganges (1794 ship), brig launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1794 for the Bengal Pilot service and destroyed by fire in 1796
- Ganges (1797 ship), an East Indiaman that participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura and that was wrecked in 1807
- Ganges (1799 ship), of 468 tons (bm), built in Newcastle-on-Tyne and sent to India in 1802 for the local trade
- Ganges (1806 ship), of 400 tons (bm), launched at Calcutta
- Ganges (1813 ship), a ship licensed to trade with India that the EIC chartered for two voyages between 1829 and 1832; damaged in a hurricane, she put into Mauritius in May 1833 and was condemned as unseaworthy and broken up there one month later
- Ganges (1817 ship), of 430 tons (bm), launched at Greenock
- Ganges (HEIC Brig), an armed brig that also participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura
Usage examples of "ganges".
After all, it was he who conquered the people of Anga, which gave us the port of Champa, which controls all the traffic down the Ganges to the sea that leads to Cathay.
Then the Ganges makes an abrupt bend to the east, and it is along that west-to-east branch of the river that the central kingdoms and republics and important cities of modern India are located.
I then made arrangements for the next stage of the journey: the crossing of the Yamuna River and the descent of the Ganges River to Varanasi.
I had been worried that if the Ganges were in flood we would have to go overland, or even wait in Mathura until the end of the rainy season.
As it turned out, both the Yamuna and Ganges rivers were in flood, and we were obliged to wait.
Not only do the monsoon rains feed that water-hungry crop but when the rains stop, the flatness of the country makes it easy for farmers to irrigate their fields with water from the always deep, swift, surprisingly cold Ganges River.
Normally, the traveler goes by boat down the Ganges to the port of Pataliputra, where he disembarks and proceeds overland to Rajagriha.
But since the Ganges was still dangerously swollen, Varshakara insisted that we travel overland by elephant.
Our only hope now is that it will turn to the northeast, to the Ganges, to the republics on the other side.
From the Shakya republic in the northern mountains down to the Licchavi republic just across the Ganges from Magadha, the nine are all united by a relentless hatred of Magadha.
These mountains are the home of the Aryan gods and, more important, the source of the Ganges River.
The Gandak River runs more or less through the center of this territory, ending when it joins the Ganges, the northern border of Magadha.
Brahmans tell us that a really bad karma can only be eliminated by thirty million million million rebirths multiplied by all the grains of sand in the bed of the Ganges River.
It was rumored that at one point the desperate Varshakara had tried to chase the horse onto a ferryboat which would have taken it across the Ganges into the Licchavian republic.
Ours is a beautiful and happy family whose only division, I always say, is the Ganges River.