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Ganga
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 32 |
| Description | Today, we can't an India without the Ganga. Yet three was a time, according to Mahabharata and Ramayana, when there was no Ganga on earth - at least not until King Bhagiratha brought her here. He did it to redeem the souls of his ancestors. They were the arrogant sons of Sagara, who were burnt to ashes by the wrath of Sage Kapila whom they had offended. Since they had died without their last rites being performed they were doomed to suffer in hell. Later the Sage relented and told Amshuman, Bhagiratha's grandfather, that if Ganga in all her purity were brought down to earth and made to toch the ashes of the sons of Sagara, their sins would be washed away and they weould go to heaven. Perhaps the Hindu custom of offering a sip of water from the sacred river Ganga to a dying or dead person as part of the last rites had its origin in this myth. Neither Amshuman, nor his son Dilipa after him, succeeded in their attempts to bring the sacred river to earth. The stupendous feat was achieved by the singleminded perseverance of Bhagiratha. That is the mythological tale as told in Mahabharata and Ramayana. |
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