Bhagirath Bhagiruth Bhogiratha : descendant of the Vedic King Sāgara of the Ikshvākū Kūla which ruled the kingdom of Koshala from Ayodhyā, whose saga is found in several Puranas. King Sāgara had two wives, Késhini & Sumati. The Rishi Aurva offered them two boons: one would lead to the birth of only one son, the other produce 60,000. When the shenanigans of the 60,000 sons of Sumati grew unbearable, Rishi Kapila asked the king to perform an Ashwamedha (q.v.) Yajna & involve them in its success. To prevent the 60,000 from getting more power to harass the people Indra seized the horse & tied it in Kapila’s ashram. The 60,000 went on rampage & the Rishi’s curse burned them to ashes. Taking pity on grief-stricken Sāgara he assured him that if Gungā flowed over those ashes his sons would revive. The penance of Sāgara & several of his successors failed to invoke Goddess Gungā; Bhagiratha’s Tapasyā succeeded & the Goddess consented but only Shiva could withstand the force of her descent, so Bhagiratha prayed to Ashutosh Shiva, who received the impetuous Gungā’s earth-shattering force & locked her up in his mighty Jatā. This, it is said, is the origin of Gangōtri which flowing down from 3100 meters above sea-level forms the river Bhāgirathie. Ultimately, led by Bhagiratha, Gungā flowed into the plains where after some 1500 miles she ran over the ashes of the 60,000. Thence the Gungā begins the last leg of her journey ending into the embrace of the vast Sāgara – the confluence called Gungā-Sāgara. There, on an island south of Kolkata, is held annually the Gungā Sāgara Mela.
... Jayanti Ravi: Member-Secretary 83 List of the Special Invitees to the Meetings of the Task-Force (1) Dr. Ansuya Sheth (2) Shri Bhagirath Desai (3) Dr. Dulariben Jitendra Gandhi (4) Ms. Devaselvi (5) Ms. Jaya Berggreen Clowsen (6) Dr. M.N. Bhad (7) Dr. M.M. Alex (8) Professor Manoj ...
... creative genius is the fruit of his Page 230 vision. The seer-vision of Vivekananda cast aside all veils and non-essentials and penetrated straight into the soul of India and, like Bhagirath, inundated the world with her glory. With the force and fire of his dynamic vital he gave her a living and mighty reality. Hosts of seers and saints had invoked the awakening dawn, but no sooner ...
... cast him down here whether to break like some Vedic Marut the world's firm and established things or to cut through mountains a path down which new rivers of human destiny can pour. Like Indra or Bhagirath he precedes; the throng of the divine waters follow. His movement decides their course; here Indus shall flow, there Ganges pace yellow and leonine to the sea. Therefore we find that the greatest ...
... dowry when marrying the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza. In 1690, Job Charnok, at the invitation of Nawab Ibrahim Khan, laid the foundations of Calcutta. The site was a swampy land on the Bhagirath comprising the village of Sutanati, to which in 1698 were added the villages of Kolikata and Govindapur. From this time onwards the three presidencies of Bombay, Madras and Bengal were e ...
... those early days, to approach Him, to touch His feet. He would bless them too, placing His hand on the head. They could drown themselves in the flood of love and grace for an eternity of 3-4 minutes! Bhagirath must have done so in the days of yore when Ganga flowed down the matted locks of Shiva. Bihari-da was given work in the garden under Jotin-da. He was later transferred to the kitchen under Dyuman-bhai ...
... started going straight up into the sky, higher and higher. At first, I was wondering as to what may happen to me, but soon this thought disappeared. After going up about one mile, I thought whether Bhagirath would have gone as high to bring down the Ganga on the earth. At that height, I found that the atmosphere was quite different and very pleasant. I saw golden light around me. The other ladies with ...
... happy, luminous As the blue full moon playing with the waves of the Ocean. 79 Peace Over the World We have only heard the pretty legend of Bhagirath Who brought down on the Earth opulent Ganga, Holy benevolent Deity from the peaks of the hidden paradise To resurrect the unwise tribe of his sixty thousand brothers Burnt ...
... (also Ganges) emerges from beneath the Gangotri glacier at a height of 3,959 m above sea level, in the Garhwal region of North India. Here she is known as the Bhagirathi, after the legendary prince Bhagirath who is accredited with bringing her down from heaven to earth. Bursting forth at Gaumukh, out of a huge cavern shaped like the mouth of a cow, snow laden and hung with giant icicles, the Bhagirathi ...
... religions and the divinity of God in man, and, gathering all these streams into one mighty river, one purifying and redeeming Ganges, pour it over the death-in-life of a materialistic humanity as Bhagirath led down the Ganges and flooded with it the ashes of his fathers, so that they may be a resurrection of the soul in mankind and the Satyayuga for a while return to the world. Nor is this the whole ...
... these great congeries of nations been welded into Empire, twice by the Ixvaacous under Mandhata son of Yuvanuswa and King Marutta, afterwards by the Haihaya Arjouna Cartoverya, again by the Ixvaacou Bhogiratha and finally by the Kuru Bharata. That the first Kuru empire was the latest is evident not only from the Kurus being the strongest nation of their time but from the significant fact that the Coshalas... & the Bharata or Ilian dynasty of the Kurus the two chief powers Page 293 of the continent. Then seems to have followed the golden age of the Ixvaacous under the beneficent empire of Bhogiratha & his descendants as far down at least as Rama. Afterwards the Coshalans, having reached their highest point, must have fallen into that state of senile decay, which once it overtakes a nation, is ...
... And Ganga was born. Mahadeva sang. Narayana melted. Brahma gathered the waters. And Ganga was born. There, in heaven, the Pure Song lingered through eons, rapt in a white desire. Until Bhagirath came and called down on our earth, Ganga, the Purifier. That is another story. 1. Other names for Shiva. Page 166 14 To Know, ...
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