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The River Ganges, also known as the Ganga, flows 2,700 km from the Himalaya mountains to the Bay of Bengal in northern India and Bangladesh. Regarded as sacred by Hindus, the river is personified as the goddess Ganga in ancient texts and...

The Manikarnika Cremation Ghat on the Ganges river, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

The course of the River Ganges. Beginning in the Himalaya it runs for 2,700 km to the Bay of Bengal.

Giant open air bas-relief in Mahabalipuram, India. Created between 600 CE – 630 CE, during the reign of Pallava King Mahendravarman I, It is called Descent of the Ganges or Arjuna’s Penance.

Saraswati (also Sarasvati) is the Hindu goddess of learning, wisdom, music, and aesthetics. She is also known as Bharati (eloquence), Shatarupa (existence), Vedamata ('mother of the Vedas'), Brahmi, Sarada, Vagisvari, and Putkari. As Vac...

Devi, also known as Mahadevi or 'Great Goddess', is an all-embracing Mother Goddess first worshipped in India in Prehistoric times. In the Vedic period, she was assimilated into the Hindu pantheon and so came to represent the female energy...

Sushruta (c. 7th or 6th century BCE) was a physician in ancient India known today as the “Father of Indian Medicine” and “Father of Plastic Surgery” for inventing and developing surgical procedures. His work on the...

Aihole (Ayyavole) was an ancient walled city in Karnataka, central India. Aihole was the first regional capital of the Karnakata region under the rule of the Chalukyas. The large number of early Hindu temples and shrines at the site mostly...

The great Hindu god Shiva has many guises and many representations in art, but perhaps the most familiar is as a dancing figure within a circle of fire, that is as Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. It is an image seen in museums, temples...

Ganga, the Hindu personification of the River Ganges. A sandstone lintel from a temple at Beshnagar, c. 500 CE. The goddess stands on a makara (a mix of crocodile and elephant) which symbolises the life-giving nature of water.