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 | | Bhagiratha's lineage was plagued by death, so he asked Brahma to purify the ashes of the deceased sons of Sagara so that they might "attain to Heaven", and also to grant him a son. | | | Bhagiratha's family line was then purified by her waters and "attained to Heaven". | | | One day, an ascetic named Bhagiratha was granted a boon by Brahma for his great devotion. |
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| | Lord Shankara was pleased with Bhagiratha’s steadfast efforts, so much so that he also offered to hold the mighty Ganges when she descended from the heavens. | | | This is the story of one of the greatest kings of all time, King Bhagiratha. | | | He asked Bhagiratha to please Lord Shankara who was the only one who could send Ganges to the earth. |
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| | Bhagiratha pleased Lord Shiva and requested him to hold her in his Jata (hairs). | | | Ganga followed Bhagiratha who was on his chariot. | | | His son Dilip too tried, but in vain, atlast Bhagiratha, the son of Dileep was successful in getting a boon from Lord Brahma, as a result of which Ganga descended down to earth. |
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| | She is said to have been brought from heaven by the prayers of Bhagiratha to purify the ashes of the 60,000 sons of King Sagara who had been consumed by the angry glance of the sage Kapila. | | | Bhagiratha, Sanskrit, Sanskrit Dictionary, Sanskrit Archives, Hinduism, Hinduism Archives, Hindu, Buddhism Archives, Buddhist, Zen Buddhism, Sanskrit Dictionary - B, Sanskrit Glossary - B, Sanskrit Terms - B, India | | | Legend relates that he was the father of 60,000 sons who were turned into a heap of ashes by a glance of the sage Kapila, and their funeral ceremonies could be performed only in the waters of the Ganges, which had to be brought from heaven for the purpose of purifying their remains. |
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| | Bhagiratha's Tapas |
| | Kindly bless me that I may have sons." Brahma replied, "You are really blessed, Bhagiratha, for having performed such a severe 'Tapas'. | | | Bhagiratha begged him: "My Lord, my forefathers are in the nether world, Patala, dead and burnt to ashes. | | | Unable to bear the effects of his 'Tapas', all the gods in Heaven went to Lord Brahma and appealed to him: "O Lord, it has become impossible to bear Bhagiratha's meditation. |
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| | Bhagiratha mounted a swift chariot and drove before mother Ganges, who followed him, purifying many countries, until they reached the ashes of Bhagiratha's forefathers, the sons of Sagara, who were thus sprinkled with water from the Ganges. | | | When King Bhagiratha approached Lord Siva and requested him to sustain the forceful waves of the Ganges, Lord Siva accepted the proposal by saying, "Let it be so." Then, with great attention, he sustained the Ganges on his head, for the water of the Ganges is purifying, having emanated from the toes of Lord Visnu. | | | Bhagiratha had a son named Sruta, whose son was Nabha. |
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http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/canto9/Canto9-Sanskrit/chapter9.html
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| | Ganga The River Goddess - Tales in Art and Mythology |
| | Bhagiratha, perplexed at the happenings, appealed to Shiva to release Ganga, so that she could wash away the sins of his ancestors, symbolized in their mortal remains. | | | Happy with Bhagiratha's conduct and also that of his preceding ancestors, Brahma asked Bhagiratha for any boon he wished. | | | As soon as Ganga touched the ashes, the ancestors arose, glowing forth in their astral bodies, and ascended towards heaven. |
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| | The Mahabharata, Book 7: Drona Parva: Abhimanyu-badha Parva: Section LX |
| | Sweet-speeched Gandharvas of celestial splendour, gratified, sang all this in the hearing of the Rishis, the gods, and human beings. | | | Thus, O Srinjaya, did that goddess, viz., the ocean-going Ganga, select lord Bhagiratha, descendant of Ikshvaku, the performer of sacrifices with profuse gifts (to the Brahmanas), as her father. | | | His sacrifices were always graced with (the presence of) the very gods with Indra at their head. |
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| | Bhagiratha had an ancestor who had 60,000 sons. | | | As the matter was of grave consequence, Bhagiratha asked Goddess Parvati, Lord Shiva's wife, for her help. | | | The army of young men upset the meditation of the hermit-saint who, in a moment of divine rage, burned every one of them to ashes by looking at them. |
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| | Sri Jahnudvipa |
| | After being worshipped by Bhagiratha, Lord Siva agreed to accept the powerful force of the descending river on his head. | | | King Bhagiratha then preceded the holy river with his chariot and ripped open a gorge to allow the Ganges to flow. | | | He said his sons could be saved if the goddess Ganga descended to earth and bathed them in her waters. |
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http://www.naturalnirvana.com/Navadvipa/Sri-Jahnudvipa/Sri-Jahnudvipa.htm
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| | Finally it was Dilipa's son Bhagiratha, who after severe austerities, propitiated the Goddess, and she agreed to come down to earth. | | | At one point, Bhagiratha went too close to the sage Jahnu's meditation site, and the disturbed hermit immediately gulped up all the waters. | | | Therefore Bhagiratha went into meditation again and obtained Shiva's consent after many more austerities. |
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| | In one of its seven streams, Ganga followed Bhagiratha and flowed over the ashes of Sagara's sons, releasing their souls. | | | By practicing severe austerities, Bhagiratha obtained a boon from Brahma to allow Ganga to come down to earth. | | | Sagara, Anshuman, and Anshuman's son Dilip all made unsuccessful attempts to liberate their kinsmen from Kapila's curse. |
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| | King Bhagiratha then assured Gangadevi that although many sinful persons would bathe in her waters, many saintly persons who can purify even places of pilgrimage would also bathe there, thus purifying her of all karmic contaminations. | | | First, she hesitated to come to earth because she feared that many sinful people would bathe in her waters and contaminate her with bad karma. | | | On this day Jahnu Muni swallowed and released the Ganga, who was on her way to deliver the ancestors of King Bhagiratha — this is one reason why the Ganges is also called the Bhagirathi. |
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| | The Mahabharata, Book 3: Vana Parva: Tirtha-yatra Parva: Section CIX |
| | "Lomasa said, 'The blessed God having heard what Bhagiratha had said, and with a view to doing what was agreeable to the residents of heaven, replied to the king, saying, 'So let it be. | | | for thy sake have I descended to the earth.' Having heard these words, king Bhagiratha directed his course towards the spot where lay those bodies of mighty Sagara's sons, in order that, O most praiseworthy of men, the holy water might flood (the same). | | | Thus assuming very many different aspects, when she fell from the sky, and reached the surface of the earth, she said to Bhagiratha, 'O great king! |
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| | Annoyed at being disturbed, Kapila with a curse burnt the 60,000 sons of Sagara. | | | According to the story, of the descent of the Ganga, once a number of demons were harassing the hermits by disturbing them in their ascetic duties. | | | Time passed and later Bhagiratha, the great grandson of Sagara, chanced to come across the bones of his dead ancestors. |
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| | The Myth of the Ganges |
| | At last she came to the mighty river Ocean and plunged into the nether regions; there she laved the heap of ashes, and the sixty thousand sons of Sagara were cleansed of every sin and attained to Heaven. | | | But after thirty thousand years he, too, died, and his son Bhagiratha, a royal saint, followed him. | | | His son, King Dilipa, constantly pondered how to bring down Ganga, that the ashes might be purified and Sagara's sons attain heaven. |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/~cheinz/syllabi/asst001/spring98/mythgang.htm
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| | She again followed Bhagiratha into the sea and then to the nether world. | | | Not finding her anywhere Bhagiratha again went on penance to please Siva. | | | But the mighty Ganga following him could not stop there suddenly and washed the hermitage away. |
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| | The devotion of Bhagiratha brought down from heaven the holy Ganges, which flows from the toe of Vishnu, and its waters having laved the ashes of the sons of Sagara, cleansed them from all impurity. | | | Kapila promised that the grandson of AnS1lmat should be the means of accomplishing this by bringing down the river of heaven. | | | Ansumat then returned to Sagara, who completed his sacrifice, and he gave the name of Sagara to the chasm which his sons had dug, and Sagara means ‘ocean.’ The son of Ansumat was Dilipa, and his son was Bhagiratha. |
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| | Hinduism and Vaisnavism |
| | In the Skanda Purana, Markandeya instructs Bhagiratha: "Those people for whom the purpose of life is religion, for whom the purpose of sexual intercourse are children, and for whom the purpose of cooking is to serve the brahmins, they are Vaishnavas." |
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| | Temple Of Gangotri,Temple Of Yamunotri,Gangotri Temple,Yamunotri Temple |
| | King Bhagiratha is said to have sat here to worship Shiva, so Lord Shiva would take the Ganges on his head. | | | It is erected near a sacred stone, called Bhagiratha Shila. | | | The Pandavas are said to have visited this place to atone for the sin of killing their relatives during the Kurukshetra war. |
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| | Ganga got very angry at being forced to leave the heaven. | | | I am not happy about leaving the heavens. | | | We must send our waters down for the sons of King Sagara. |
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| | Later, the Sage relented and told Amsuman, Bhagiratha’s grandfather, that if Ganga in all her purity were brought down to earth and made to touch the ashes of the sons of Sagara, their sins would be washed away and they would go to heaven. | | | Yet there was a time, according to Mahabharata and Ramayana, when there was no Ganga on earth — at least not until King Bhagiratha brought her here. | | | It is not difficult then to visualise what agonies the people there must have suffered without the blessed water. |
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| | The Life of Ganga - Indian Epics and Stories |
| | Brahma had no objection to release Ganga, except that Bhagiratha first had to worship Shiva, so that he would accept to hold the force of Ganga in his hairs, lest she would overwhelm the entire Earth. | | | Wherever Ganga would flow in following Bhagiratha, people came in large numbers to bath and obtain purification. | | | When Ganga descended from the heavens, Shiva covered the sky with his hair locks, so that not a drop would fall on Earth. |
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| | When Bhagiratha, one of the descendants of Sagara, son of Dilip, learnt of this fate, he vowed to bring Ganga down to Earth so that her waters could cleanse their souls and release them to heaven. | | | The souls of the sons of Sagara wandered as ghosts since their final rites had not been performed. | | | Brahma agreed, and he ordered Ganga to go down to the Earth and then on to the nether regions so that the souls of Bhagiratha's ancestors would be able to go to heaven. |
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| | Bhagiratha went on a prolonged penance for a son and to bring Ganga to earth. | | | He was succeeded by his son Dilipa and Dilipa was followed by his son Bhagiratha. | | | Brahma appeared and told him "Bhagiratha, you can have your son. |
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| | THE VALMIKI RAMAYANA |
| | May this be the desired superior boon' (20). | | | the Grandsire spoke to that high-souled Bhagiratha, who was | | | That one of extreme radiance, the most fortunate Bhagiratha, |
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| | SHLOKA - 14 IN EKATMATA STOTRA |
| | For bringing Ganga on earth Bhagiratha's father and grandfather also had exerted doing penance but they could not be successful in their endeavours. | | | In the lineage of king Sagara of the Ikshvaku clan, son of king Dilipa, Bhagiratha is famous for getting salvation, by bringing down Ganga on earth, for his ancestors (sons of king Sagar) who had been burnt by the anger of Kapila Muni. | | | (1) King Bhagiratha, (2) Ekalavya, (3) Manu, (4) Dhanvantari, (5) King Shibi, (6) King Rantideva — all these whose praises have been sung in the Puranas. |
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http://www.hssworld.org/homepage/html/boudhik/ekatmata_stotra/SHLOKA_14.HTML
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| | On one occasion, as Bhagiratha was trying to bring Ganga to the earth, Ganga Devi addressed Bhagiratha, and asked if he was trying to take the Ganga and get her polluted by contact with people who committed lots of sins. | | | Ganges felt that if many sinners, who do not know what kindness is and who suffer from ego and selfishness, came into contact with her, she will also loose her sanctity. | | | Seven liberatises flow into Ganga but the purity of the Ganges is not altered. |
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| | S*Poo Nai's Norska Skogkatter: Etymology S*Poo Nai's Goddess Ganga |
| | King Bhagiratha, in the Hindi mythology had a grand grandfather, Sagara. | | | Sagara had one son, Bhagiratha's grandfather with one of his two wifes, and 60000 sons with the other. | | | The 60000 sons, who among other things digged a huge crater when searching for a sacrificial horse, hade been burnt to ashes in the infernal (Patala). |
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| | JALASANGAMA ANDOLAN: An appeal for water |
| | It was launched by Sri.Doddappaiya Gangappa, a former IAS officer, the Convenor and the Chairman of Sri Jalakanteswarar Dharma Sthabanam (Regd.) on 3rd August 2001 at Sri Jalakanteswarar Temple, Fort, Vellore, by lighting Bhagiratha Jyothi in the presence of several Holy Men with a Maha Sankalpa. | | | BHAGIRATHA, the legendry hero, is perhaps the first to have ever attempted a River Water project in the world. | | | Now, the River Ganga has to cross the Vindhyas and reach the South to join the River Kaveri. |
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| | Nilacharal - A Tamil entertainment ezine presenting interesting contents and useful services |
| | We must remember several thousand years ago there were no people on the Gangetic plains. | | | Bhagiratha with great ingenuity diverted the river by breaking certain point in the Himalaya and the mighty river descended to the present Gangetic plains of North India. | | | The story of Bhagiratha bringing river Ganges to the earth clearly says that several of his forefathers also tried and failed in the mission. |
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| | Viśvamitra wanted Rama's help to do battle with King Janaka. | | | Bhagiratha needed to wash his ancestors' bones in Ganga. | | | Bhagiratha used the waters of Ganga to wash his ancestors' ashes. |
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| | Tourism of India - Holiday Ideas |
| | Also called the 'Descent of the Ganga' and 'Bhagiratha's Penance', the carving tees with human figures, animals, deities and ordinary people watching the descent of the holy river from the Himalayas. | | | A natural cleft between the two stones has been creatively used to simulate the cascading Ganga. | | | This is an immense bas relief, ornately carved on the open face of two adjacent granite rocks. |
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| | On the Phalguna Purnima, the birthday of the Lord, my vow will be completed. | | | O Bhagiratha, my waters emanate from the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, so now here in His own dhama I would like to have my desires fulfilled. | | | Do not fear.' Thus Bhagiratha, the leader of the Raghu family, stayed here in Ganga-nagara until the Phalguna Purnima. |
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| | Gaudiya Grantha Mandira - A Sanskrit Text Repository |
| | I have to say that I enjoyed this book. | | | I will be posting another text by Bhagiratha Jha in the near future--his Vedanta-tattva-samiksa, a commentary on Gopala-tapani Upanishad. | | | Home / Bhakti-rasa / Others / Vrindavana-rasa-tattva-samiksa :: Bhagiratha Jha |
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| | indiayogi.com - Indian Gods and Goddesses - Ganga - The River of Salvation - bhagiratha, devotee, cosmic current, ... |
| | The anger of the Great God was kindled when he divined this plan, and no sooner did the Cosmic Current descend than it lost itself in the endless universe that was the hair of Shiva. | | | The much-chastened Ganga had by now fallen in love with the Great God, and she is generally reckoned to be one of his wives, as she spends all her time in close embrace with him! | | | Bhagiratha, refusing to despair, did tapasya yet again and finally Shiva, overcome with admiration for such spirit consented to let Ganga flow out in five gentle streams out of his hair. |
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| | Indiatime: The Great Indian Flood of 2010 |
| | Lord Rama's ancestor King Bhagiratha is said to have brought the Ganges from heaven to the earth, basically to purify the ashes of his own ancestors. | | | Sadly, Bhagiratha's descendants and their buddies around the planet have been wreaking such havoc with nature for a couple hundred years, that the Goddess Ganges is all set to disapppear back to the heavens. | | | The latest report by WWF on the health of Himalayan glaciers is not just alarming and scary, but it has the potential to change the history and geography of the Indian subcontinent within the next few years. |
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http://www.indiatime.com/archives/2005/03/the_great_india.html
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| | Pejavara Svami - Prabhupada - Madhvacarya - dvaita - tattvavada |
| | It is Bhagiratha who brought the Ganga from the celestial planets down to the earth planet. | | | Swami Prabhupada, like Bhagiratha, spread this devotion, the bhakti-ganga, all over the world. | | | At one time, however, this Ganga did not flow through the earth planet. |
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| | Mahabalipuram Travel, Tour Packages, Tours, Hotels, Holidays Or Vacation In Mahabalipuram |
| | The crack in the rock depicts the descent of the Ganga, brought to earth by King Bhagiratha to redeem the cursed souls of his ancestors. | | | Bhagiratha’s or Arjuna’s Penance - Arjuna's Penance, an enormous relief made on two huge boulders, is the universe itself in stone. | | | This colossus of art, 27 metres long and 9 metres high, is perhaps the world's largest bas-relief. |
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| | The great here who brought down the Ganga from the heaven to the earth. | | | Bhagiratha has become another name for a will of steel that never accepts defeat. |
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| | The River Ganges |
| | The Story of the descent of Ganga: Ganga, the heavenly river was brought down to the earth through the efforts of the ruler Bhagiratha. | | | This current of acknowledgement runs through the entire subcontinent, as seen from references to the Ganges in ancient South Indian literature. | | | Legends related to the Ganga: Several colorful legends are associated with the river Ganga, as related in the Indian epics. |
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| | The Hindu : Pallava monument |
| | Arjuna and Bhagiratha both stand together, with several others, as archetypes of the Pallava King Mamalla Narasimhavarman-I. As the patron of the relief and many other monuments at Mamallapuram, he is ultimately its only subject, the recipient of its praise (as gleaned from the several colourful "birudas" in the "prasastis"). | | | But the present author accepts the validity of both the interpretations and says that the panel is supreme example of bi-textuality, the earliest simultaneous narrative on record. | | | The relief therefore is not an extended double-entendre, but rather tri-samdhana or triple narrative, the third being a dynastic (Pallava) eulogy. |
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| | " Kamat's Potpourri The Descent of Ganga River The Descent of Ganga River Sculpture from Mahabalipuram in Tamilnadu There is an emaciated figure of Bhagiratha practicing penance. | | | Among the animals, right from elephants, to the ascetic cat with trustful mice at its feet deer and monkeys are depicted in |
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| | Comment: Emperor Bhagiratha had the credit of bringing down the stream to the terrestrial plane by dint of his devotion and austerities in order to purify the ashes of his departed grand uncles. | | | Having penetrated into a deep forest, they the illustrious trios, while seeing many stretches of land and at some places, attractive scenery never seen before, proceeded in the direction of that region where river Yamuna was flowing forth towards river Ganga, associated with the name of Emperor Bhagiratha. |
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| | Bhagiratha to release on 12th October - Telugu Cinema News | | | Raviteja, Shriya starrer Bhagiratha is shaping up to release on 12th October for Vijaya Dasami. | | | Rasool is directing this film for Mallidi Satyanarayana Reddy (producer of Bunny). |
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| | "Bhagiratha": Action star Ravi Teja in a different role has helped to break the jinx of cinematographer-turned-director Rasool. | | | Bhagiratha : Teja puts 'Bhagiratha' on top, "Bhagiratha": Action star Ravi Teja in a different role | | | Hyderabad, Oct 20 (IANS) "Bhagiratha," which has received a good response due to its lead actor Ravi Teja, tops this fortnight's list of Telugu films. |
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