Slowly she moved up the Hooghli River, a mouth of the mighty Ganges, toward Calcutta.

A boat on the Ganges River

* A fleet of opium clippers on the River Ganges

*** Ganges and Indus River Dolphin, Platanista gangetica with two subspecies

**** Ganges River Dolphin ( or Susu ), Platanista gangetica gangetica

Among the few large rivers flowing into the Indian Ocean are the Zambezi, Shatt al-Arab, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Jubba and Irrawaddy River.

* A center of Buddhist studies is established at Nalanda in Bihar on the plains of the Ganges River ( India ).

Some of these scenes are a transparent inside a church with someone walking by, a black man praying, a monk sitting while a bird flies off his stick, the same monk walking by the river, a bird flying by a sunset, more children ( similar to the final scene in " That Place "), crows flying above a river, two men rowing their boat in that river, a woman praying in the Ganges River, two men doing yoga, another monk, and a temple in Nepal.

" During the time of Gautama Buddha the city was called Ayojjhā in Pali and Ayodhyā in Sanskrit, though this city was said to be on the River Ganges ( Pheṇāpiṇḍūpama Sutta-SN 22. 95 ).

A number of large rivers – the Ganges and its distributaries such as Padma and Hooghly, Brahmaputra and its distributaries such as Jamuna, Meghna, Irrawaddy River, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna and Kaveri – flow into the Bay of Bengal.

The Krishna River is the third longest river in India after the Ganges and the Godavari.

* Ganga ( goddess ), the Hindu goddess that personifies the Ganges River

A bath in Godavari during the pushkaram period is said to be equivalent to bathing in the holy River Ganges.

Periodic flooding was essential to the well-being of ancient communities along the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers, the Nile River, the Indus River, the Ganges and the Yellow River, among others.

East of Porus ' kingdom, near the Ganges River, Alexander faces the powerful empire of Magadha ruled by the Nanda dynasty.

* Following the mutiny of his army at the Hyphasis River, Alexander is persuaded by his army leaders to abandon his plans for invading the Ganges Valley.

A 30-year water-sharing agreement for the Ganges River was signed in December 1996, after an earlier bilateral water-sharing agreement for the Ganges River lapsed in 1988.

Notable distributaries are the Kollidam River, a distributary of the Kaveri River, and the Hoogli River, a distributary of the Ganges River, both in India.

It comprised large portions of the broad belt of hill and plateau, which separates the plains of the Ganges and the Deccan plateau.

Near Bhola, just before flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the river divides into two main streams in the Ganges delta and separates an island from both sides of the mainland.

The Ganges separates Unnao from Kanpur district.

Sirajganj District is on the north-east, while the Padma River, main stream of the holy river Ganges, in the south separates it from Rajbari District and Kushtia District.

Ambala separates Ganges river network from Indus river network and surrounded by two rivers Ghaggar & Tangri from North & South side. Due to its geographical location, the Ambala district plays an important role in local tourism.

The Arial Khan, a branch of the Ganges, enters the district from the north, and flows generally in a south-easterly direction until it falls into the estuary of the Meghna.

Kanpur district along with Kanpur Dehat district lie between the fertile Doab region of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.

The city is located on the level plains of the Malwa plateau ; to the south, the land rises gently to the Vindhya Range, which is the source of the Chambal and Kali Sindh rivers that flow north through the district on their way to the Ganges. The main river in dewas is Kshipra, which is known as holy river.

The Alaknanda River, one of the main sources of the Ganges, receives with its affluents the whole drainage of the district.

The district is bordered by the Himalayas in the north, the Sivalik Hills to the south, the river Ganges to the east, and the Yamuna river to the west.

Barasat is located in the Ganges Brahmaputra delta region in the district of North 24 parganas, West Bengal state in the eastern India.

Originating in the Gangotri Glacier of the Himalaya, the Ganges runs to the Bay of Bengal through India, entering Bangladesh at Shibganj in the district of Chapai Nababganj.

The mighty Padma ( the portion of the Ganges between its junctions with Bhagirathi and Brahmaputra also known as the lower Ganges ), touches the district at its most northerly corner, at the point where it throws off the Jalangi, and flows along the northern border in a direction slightly south-east, until it leaves the district some miles to the east of Kushtia.

Unnao district is a part of Central Ganges Plain of the state covering an area of 4558 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.

The district is bounded by river Ganges in the west and the river Sai in the east.

The entire district falling in Sai Sub-basin of the Ganges basin represents flat topography.

The district is mainly drained by the river Ganges and its tributaries Kalyani, Khar, Loni and Marahai in the western part of the district, and by Sai river in the eastern part of the district.

The rivers, namely the Ganges, Haroohar and Kiul, pass through Lakhisarai district.

Characteristically the soil of the district is divided into four, viz flood plains of the Ganges, Karatoya, Jamuna and Barind Tract.

It joins the Ganges at Godagiri in Nawabganj district in Bangladesh.

Ganges, Gôrai, Mathabhanga, Kaligônga, and Kumar are the main rivers flowing through the district.

The entire Chuadanga district lies within the Ganges Delta, with rivers Mathabhanga, Bhairab, Kumar, Chitra, and Nabaganga flowing through the district.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

The north-eastern monsoon sweeps up the valley of the Ganges from the Bay of Bengal and waters the northern part of Rajasthan, but hardly penetrates farther west than the longitude of Ajmer.

" Brahmins on the banks of the Ganges received gifts from the emperor, while following a meeting with Jadrup, a Hindu ascetic, Jahangir felt compelled to comment that " association with him is a great privilege.

* The name Nepal is also supposed to be derived from the Sanskrit word " NEP "( न े प ), with the suffix " AL " ( आल ) added to it ; though still under controversy, NEP were the people who used to be cow herders — the GOPALS ( ग ो प ा ल )— who came to the Nepal valley for the first time from the Ganges plain of India.

In the other direction it is divided into three major river systems, from east to west: Koshi, Gandaki / Narayani and Karnali ( including the Mahakali / Sarda along the western border ), all tributaries of the Ganges.

* The late Rigvedic Nadistuti sukta enumerates all important rivers from the Ganges in the east up to the Indus in the west in a clear geographical order.

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It has been suggested that the drawings record a story, most probably dating to the early centuries BC, from some center in the area of the Ganges – Yamuna plain into the territory of still Neolithic hunting tribes.

Ujjain emerged as the predominant commercial center of western India from the first century BCE, located on the trade routes between the Ganges plain and India's Arabian Sea ports.

All the rivers, which drain into the Ganges, flow from south to north, with the Chambal, Shipra, Kali Sindh, Parbati, Kuno, Sind, Betwa, Dhasan and Ken rivers being the main tributaries of the Yamuna.

Son, which arises in the Maikal hills around Amarkantak, is the largest tributary that goes into the Ganges on the south bank and that does not arise from the Himalayas.

Most of the country is situated on deltas of large rivers flowing from the Himalayas ; the Ganges unites with the Jamuna ( main channel of the Brahmaputra ) and later joins the Meghna to eventually empty into the Bay of Bengal

Shiva's focus on water has seen her appear in a number of related films: " Ganga from the ground up " a documentary on water issues in the river Ganges ,, Blue Gold: World Water Wars by Sam Bozzo, Irena Salina's documentary Flow: For Love of Water ( in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ) and the PBS NOW documentary On Thin Ice.

* Davidson, Linda Kay and David Gitlitz " Pilgrimage, from the Ganges to Graceland: an Encyclopedia " ( Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002 ).

* from thence to Ganges 112 miles

They are also rare along the coast around northeastern South America and Bangladesh due to the freshwater release from the Amazon and Ganges Rivers, respectively.

In India the delayed summer monsoon caused late torrential rains that aggravated the spread of cholera from a region near the River Ganges in Bengal to as far as Moscow.

" According to an eyewitness-Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955 – 2010, as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem My India, concluding with the words " Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God — I am hallowed ; my body touched that sod ".< ref >

In 1977, Sir Edmund Hillary led a jetboat expedition, titled " Ocean to Sky ", from the mouth of the Ganges River to its source.

Hence, during the time of Mahamaham festival, it is also believed that taking bath in the holy stream of water from the famous rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, Sarasvati River, Sarayu, Godavari River, Mahanadi River, Narmada River, Pavoshnl and Kaveri River, which are mixed together in Mahamaham tank, would get rid of sins according to Hindu religion.