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River flowing into the Bay of Bengal
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ganges
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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from Sanskrit ganga "current, river."
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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 ...
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.