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ganges

/ˈɡænd͡ʒiz/

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What does ganges mean?

proper noun

  1. 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.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440
They join at that point—the pale blue Jumna, apparently clean and clear, and the muddy Ganges, dull yellow and not clean.
Mark TwainFollowing the Equator: A Journey Around the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #2895
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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.
Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysTranslated by George M. (George Makepeace) TowleProject Gutenberg ebook #103
And some men clepe it Ganges, for a king that was in Ind, that hight Gangeres, and that it ran throughout his land.
John, Sir MandevilleThe Travels of Sir John MandevilleProject Gutenberg ebook #782
To the south and east vast billows of golden grain roll in successive undulations to the mighty Ganges, the sacred stream of the Hindoos.
James InglisSport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo PlanterProject Gutenberg ebook #10818