Ganges River

His first wife was the goddess Ganga of the Ganges river, and she was divinely beautiful like to her kind.

The view of Benares from the Ganges River is an unusually fine one.

"Take me to the Ganges River quickly," she demanded, "for I must throw these into the sacred river," and she held out her bundle.

"Holy men" of the church are not cremated; they are either buried or, like the children, cast into the Ganges River.

Benares is the Hindus' sacred city, and the sacred Ganges River is lined with temples and bathing and burning ghats.