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ganges
/ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/
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What does ganges mean?
proper noun
- A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.
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With the exception of a species found in the Ganges, all other varieties of dolphin inhabit the sea exclusively.
They join at that point—the pale blue Jumna, apparently clean and clear, and the muddy Ganges, dull yellow and not clean.
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The Ganges, according to the legends of the Ramayana, rises in heaven, whence, owing to Brahma’s agency, it descends to the earth.
And some men clepe it Ganges, for a king that was in Ind, that hight Gangeres, and that it ran throughout his land.
To the south and east vast billows of golden grain roll in successive undulations to the mighty Ganges, the sacred stream of the Hindoos.