Questions And Answers: Holy Rivers / Gaṅgā

Is the Gaṅgā coming due to Vāmanadeva and due to king Bhagīratha the same?
Questioner: Anonymous
Date: 2022-07-27
Jayapatākā Swami: You see the Ganges came into the universe by Lord Vāmanadeva.
But first she was in the higher planets.
Bhagī Mahārāja by tapasya, meditation, he brought her to the earth.
But the Ganges said that there is no riverbed, how will I just flow?
Bhagī Mahārāja he accepted that he will create a river bed so that mother Gaṅgā can come.
That is why one of her names is Bhagīratī.
Because Bhagī Mahārāja’s chariot had cut a river bed.
The Ganges has many names Bhagīratī is one name, Gaṅgā is another.
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