Ganges is revered as a goddess, and it is often called maiya or mother.
The Kumbh Mela has been held on the banks of the Ganges for thousands of years.
So the River Ganges appeared here in Mandakini's form - a tributary of Ganga.
In India, for example, more than 400 million people live along the highly polluted Ganges River.
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Relations between India and Bangladesh have been strained for years over sharing water from the Ganges.
Disillusioned, according to Mr Din, he threw his bugle into the Ganges shortly before he died.
We walk to the relative solitude of the banks of the Ganges and sit down.
Many of them are carrying bottles or cans full of Ganga-jal - sacred water from the Ganges.
But it's the Ganges river dolphin and the Irrawaddy dolphin which give the most cause for concern.
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It's not uncommon to find some Ganges water in Hindu households across the length and breadth of India.
The Asian Development Bank regards as exemplary the 1996 agreement between India and Bangladesh for sharing Ganges river.
Yesterday morning, as per Hindu custom, the ashes from her cremated body were scattered in the Ganges River.
The Ganges was blocked by a mammoth landslide last month, and a big lake formed behind the landfall.
However, when the British came into India, to Varanasi and up the Ganges, they brought products from their mills.
In Hindu cosmology, this is the area where Shiva first set foot on earth, where the Ganges River begins.
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Yes they have that sort of thing on the Ganges but they are ready for it and do it right.
Many carry tridents and spears, but most carry kamandals - small brass or copper pitcher for carrying the holy Ganges water.
These politicians should bathe in the Ganges to absolve their sins.
If they bathe at the Ganges on the most auspicious day of the festival, believers say they can rid themselves of their sins.
Many of these areas are found in Asia, such as the Ganges River Delta, the Mekong River Delta and islands in the South Pacific.
On the first day of the 55-day Hindu festival, an estimated 8 million people bathed at the merging point of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
Herschel in 1967 and boating east Himalayan rivers and the Ganges.
Andrew Turner has built the boat and is ferrying pilgrims for free at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, where the festival is held.
This newfound reptile appears to be the first known freshwater mosasaur, an animal comparable to modern river dolphins now seen in the Amazon, Ganges and Yangtze rivers.
The incident took place on the main day of bathing on Sunday when 30 million pilgrims took a dip at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers.
The authorities have set up tented camps along the banks of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, but with about 100 million people attending, demand for accommodation is very high.
At the same time, the rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers promises to deprive the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent, the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra, of their summertime source.
For 42 days starting on January 9th, the alignment of the stars makes Allahabad, where the Ganges, the Yamuna and a mythical third river converge, an especially holy place to be.
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