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The Birth Of The River "Ganga"

The first name of this river was Bhagiratha.
Every river has his own legend, now I'm going to explain one of it. 

Bhagiratha, the name of the river,  stayed in a forest 

The River "Ganga".

of Himalaya practising terrible austerities. For a thousand years he remained with arms upraised, with four firesburning around, and with the sun blazing upon him. At last Brahma had compassion upon him. The Lord of All came to that sage and told him he could ask a boon as a reward for his austerities. Then the sage said, "The boon I ask is that King Sagara's sixty thousand sons win to Indra's heaven. Their ashes lie far down in the earth.

And until a water which is not the water of earth flows over the ashes
and purifies them they cannot win heaven." The Lord of All was
pleased with what the sage asked, and the boon was granted.

And so Brahma promised that Ganga would descend upon earth.
Now Gangā was the daughter of Himalaya, the Lord of Snow, and she had held herself back from leaving the heaven-world. She would leave at Brahma's command, but her downward rush would be so terrible that the earth
would be dashed to pieces by it. Only one thing could save the earth 
from that tremendous stroke: if the head of Shiva received her stream,
 the fall of Ganga upon earth would be broken. At the end of this legend,

 Ganga saved the world and became a river with the best memories!

In my opinion, this legend is very intresting. Each legend is beautifu

l in its own way, but I like this one very much, because of his perfect

 meaning and interesting story.

The information is from: http://www.saivism.net/articles/ganges.asp,

 http://www.sanatansociety.org/indian_epics_and_stories/the_life_of_ganga.htm and the foto is from: https://www.google.es/search?q=the+born+of+the+river+ganga&espv=210&es_sm=122&biw=1280&bih=826&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI46fVlIiCxgIVCrIUCh2UaQBS.