Ganga
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #408 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 12 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in multiple texts from Ramayana through Kanda Puranam as facilitating Kartikeya's birth.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Brahma, Vayu, Kamadeva, Rati, Kārtikeya, Skanda, Tarakasura, Surapadma, Rudra, Maheshvara, Simhamukha, Krittikas, Kumara, Nandi, Sarasvati, Brahmaputra, Bhagiratha, Vadavagni, Narmada, Godavari, Prithu, Prabhāsa, Jahanvi, Menavati, Bhumi Devi, Lakshmi, Bhishma, eight Vasus, Mahadevi, Durga, Parvati, Mahamaya, Durgamasura, Jagaddhatri, Śiva, Budha, Pururavas, Chandra, Ila, Kardama, Vasishtha, Yamuna, Indra, Sūrya, Ulupi, Vritra
- consort of
- Shantanu
- parent of
- Bhishma
- sibling of
- Parvati
- created by
- Vishnu
- manifests as
- Ganges river
- syncretized with
- Bharat Mata
- enemy of
- Karindrasura, Saraswati
- serves
- Varuna
- served by
- Makara
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“with his birth aided by Agni and Ganga...The semen was then incubated in the Ganges...Ganga took them to Saravana lake, where the sparks developed into six baby boys”
#11928 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The doorjamb of the ante-chamber contains sculptures of Ganga”
#17784 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The male half wears a jata-mukuta (a headdress formed of piled, matted hair) on his head, adorned with a crescent moon. Sometimes the jata-mukuta is adorned with serpents and the river goddess Ganga flowing through the hair.”
#22236 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“To expiate the sin of having caused the death of a sacred creature, Gautama propitiated the goddess Ganga to descend upon his hermitage and cleanse it. She acquiesced, descending upon the land as the goddess Godavari, along with Shiva.”
#22465 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Vasus then requested the river-goddess Ganga to be their mother. Ganga incarnated and became the wife of King Shantanu...Ganga drowned them in her own waters, freeing them from their punishment”
#22566 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5