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The Descent of the Ganga to the Earth The Ganga was originally a river in the sky. It was called Akash Ganga. Now, let's see why and how the Ganga came to the earth. Once upon a time, there was a king called Sagara. He had 60,000 sons. One day they went to the forest hunting. They happened to make a sage angry by their arrogant behaviour. He turned them to ashes. They died because of a sage's anger. So their souls could not reach the heaven. Many hundreds of years later, a descendant of them decided to send his forefathers' souls to the heaven. His name was Bhageerath. He asked many wise men what he should do to be able to send his forefathers' souls to the heaven. They said if the Akash Ganga flowed along the land where their ashes spread, their souls could go to the heaven. So he prayed to the Ganga to come to the earth and flow along the land where his forefathers' ashes lay. The Ganga accepted his prayer but she warned that if she descended to the earth directly...
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