Jahnavie : epithet of Ganga; when her flow disturbed his tapasyā, sage Jahnu drank her up. Made to realise the catastrophe, he let her out from his ear, hence this epithet.
... in pureness like a child To his mother's bosom clutched. Where the steps of Rama wandered, where the feet of Krishna came, There thou flowest, there thy hand Clasps us, Bhagirathie, Jahnavie or Gunga, and thy name Holier makes the Aryans' land. But thou leavest Aryavurtha, but thou leapest to the seas In thy hundred mighty streams; Nor in the unquiet Ocean vast thy grandiose ...
... daughters of joy, and who often mingle in love with mortals. Nor must we forget our own mother, Ganges, the triple and mystic river, who is Mundaqinie, Ganges of the Gods, in heaven, Bhagirathie or Jahnavie, Ganges of men, on earth, and Boithorinie or coiling Bhogavatie, Ganges of the dead, in Patala, the grey under-world and kingdom of serpents, and in the sombre dominions of Yama. Saraswatie, namesake ...
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