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unusual facts about Ganga


Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb

Kathak a fine dramatization of poetry in Urdu and Khari boli or Braj bhasha has evolved as an ensemble of Indo-Islamic music and dance and this repertoire is the most beautiful show-piece of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb.


Ahir

Gaṅga Ram Garg considers the Ahir to be a tribe descended from the ancient Abhira community, whose precise location in India is the subject of various theories based mostly on interpretations of old texts such as the Mahabharata and the writings of Ptolemy.

Baluchari Sari

After a flood in the Ganga river and the subsequent submerging of the village, the industry moved to Bishnupur village in Bankura district.

Bojjala Gopala Krishna Reddy

His father Ganga Subbarami Reddy was an MLA from sri kalahasti constituency.He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1968 and Bachelor of Laws in 1972 from Sri Venkateswara University

Climate of Uttar Pradesh

Floods are a known hazard of U.P. due to overflowing of its main rivers like Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Gomti, Sharda, Ghaghra, Rapti and Gandak.

Dharmamangal

The other narratives included in these texts are the narrative about Shiva, the hagiographies of Minanatha and Gorakshanatha, the narrative of Ganga, the narrative of Sada Dom and Ramai Pandit, the description of the atrocities of Dharma in Jajpur and the narrative of king Harishcahndra.

Dimitri Mobengo Mugianis

Dimitri is currently N'ganga-in-residence for drug users at New York Harm Reduction Educators (NYHRE), a New York needle exchange working with homeless, formerly incarcerated, and HIV-positive people in East Harlem and The Bronx.

Divya Rana

Divya Rana is a former Bollywood actress most noted for her role in Raj Kapoor's Ram Teri Ganga Maili.

Dodangoda Divisional Secretariat

The highest elevation of 223 meters from the sea level is in Wellatha east area and the lowest is around the Kalu River (Kalu Ganga) in north-west quarter.

Eastern Ganga dynasty

The rulers of Eastern Ganga dynasty defended their kingdom from the constant attacks of the Muslim rulers.

Economy of Western Ganga kingdom

The Western Ganga sovereignty lasted from about 350 to 550, initially ruling from Kolar and later moving their capital to Talakad on the banks of the Kaveri River in modern Mysore district.

Fatima Jinnah Medical College

Sir Ganga Ram Hospital was established in 1921 in the walled city of Lahore by a philanthropist Sir Ganga Ram who also donated a piece of land.

Ganga Sahai Sharma

Ganga Sahai Sharma was an extremely accomplished late 19th century Sanskrit Scholar in the Bundi state of Rajasthan (at time known as Rajputana) in Colonial British India.

Ganges in Hinduism

Personified as a goddess (Sanskrit गङ्गा Gaṅgā), it is worshiped by Hindus who believe that bathing in the river causes the remission of sins and facilitates liberation from the cycle of life and death.

Jaya Ganga

The film is based on Vijay Singh's first novel Jaya Ganga, In Search Of the River Goddess (French:Jaya Ganga, le Gange et son double) (Penguin Delhi/London 1985. Rupa & Co. Delhi 2005. Ramsay Paris 1985; Ginkgo éditeur Paris 2005).

John Faithfull Fleet

The work deals with a number of dynasties, from the Kadambas, Gangas, and Latas, to the Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, and Seunas.

K. K. Nagar, Chennai

The statue is designed such that water, representing Ganga, flows down from the head from a height of about 15 ft providing a cascading effect.

Ladan and Laleh Bijani

In November 2002, after meeting Dr. Keith Goh, a Singaporean neurosurgeon who successfully separated the Shrestha sisters from Nepal (Ganga and Jamuna), who had previously also been joined at the head, the Bijani sisters travelled to Singapore to undergo the controversial operation.

Lalgarh Palace

In 1972, Karni Singh, M.P., the Maharaja of Bikaner, established the Ganga Singhji Charitable Trust.

Mukhalingam

Sri Mukhalingam was also capital of Eastern Ganga kings of Kalinga (ancient Orissa).

Nivik

Safe in the confluence, Ganga dispatched two salmon upriver; the fish swam until they found Vamana, and they entreated the dwarf god to come to Ganga’s aid.

Pusweli Oya

The stream flows for 16 km down its valley before joining the Kelani Ganga near Hanwella.

Quilombo

Directed by Carlos Diegues, Quilombo is a mystical, yet mostly accurate, historical epic that chronicles the lives of Ganga Zumba and Zumbi.

Radha Kund

Indignant that Krishna used his powers for this, Radha and her girl attendants dug out a kunda with their bangles and filled it with water from “Manasi-Ganga”, another holy kunda at nearby Govardhan.

Shiv Ganga Express

Shiv Ganga Express is an Indian Super-fast train of North Eastern Railway Zone named after the two jewels of Varanasi: Lord Shiva and the Ganges river.

Shubha Lagnam

This movie was remade in Tamil as Irattai Roja with Ramki, in Kannada as Ganga Yamuna with Shivrajkumar , in Hindi as Judaai with Anil Kapoorand also later remade into Malayalam as 'Sundara purushan" with Suresh Gopi .

Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal

It became the first Tamil film to feature a Best Actress National Award winning performance, won by Lakshmi for her portrayal of the lead character Ganga.

Subhash Misra

Columnist Khushwant Singh wrote, "We have a new talented poet joining the band of Ganga worshipers.

Triveni Sangam

On the bank of the Ganges at Daraganj, just before the confluence of ganga and Yamuna, the well known statistician Ravindra Khattree spent his early years when he attended Ewing Christian College, situated on the bank of Yamuna few miles before the confluence and the famous writer "Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala'" also spent his whole life at the same place (Daraganj).

Udayagiri Caves

Asher identified further potential political allegories in two figures depicted on one of the two projecting walls, who were female personifications of Gaṅgā and Yamunā, the rivers that flowed through the heartland of the Gupta Empire.

Unnao

The only great river of the district is the Ganga which first touches the district near the village of Purwa Gahir, in pargana Bangarmau and flows south-eastward, separating this district from districts Kanpur and Fatehpur.

Usha Poudel

Usha Poudel has acted in 21 films, including Karma, Muna Madan, Godhuli, Timro Maya, Pyari Bahini, Ganga, Jetho Kancho, Ram Laxman, Baaz, Krodh and Maya Nagara.

Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur

They reply, they are the Ganga (Ganges), Yamuna and other holy rivers of India—revered for their holiness.


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