A report on Brahmaputra River, Ganges and Mount Kailash

Thangka depicting Mount Kailash
Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet
Bhagirathi River at Gangotri.
Yarlung Tsangpo
Devprayag, confluence of Alaknanda (right) and Bhagirathi (left), and beginning of the Ganges proper.
Brahmaputra basin in India
The Himalayan headwaters of the Ganges River in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India.
A view of sunset in the Brahmaputra from Dibrugarh
The Gandhi Setu Bridge across the Ganges in Patna, Bihar
Rivers of Bangladesh, including the Brahmaputra
A sailboat on the main distributory of the Ganges in Bangladesh, the Padma river.
The Brahmaputra River from Space
The Ganges delta in a 2020 satellite image.
Rowing competition of Sualkuchi at Brahmaputra River
A 1908 map showing the course of the Ganges and its tributaries.
Flooded villages along the Brahmaputra
The River Ganges at Kolkata, with Howrah Bridge in the background
Brahmaputra River seen from a SPOT satellite
Lower Ganges in Lakshmipur, Bangladesh
The Brahmaputra and its tributaries in northeastern India and Bangladesh
Hardinge Bridge, Bangladesh, crosses the Ganges-Padma River. It is one of the key sites for measuring streamflow and discharge on the lower Ganges.
James Rennell's 1776 map shows the Brahmaputra's flow before an earthquake on 2 April 1762 and the Teesta River flowing in three channels to the Ganga before a flood in 1787.
Chromolithograph, Indian woman floating lamps on the Ganges, by William Simpson, 1867
Silhouette of a fisherman on boat during sunset at Brahmaputra River
Descent of Ganga, painting by Raja Ravi Varma c. 1910
Preparations for cremations on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi], 1903. The dead are being bathed, wrapped in cloth, and covered with wood. The photograph has a caption, "Who dies in the waters of the Ganges obtains heaven."]
An Aerial view of the Dhola–Sadiya Bridge
Women and children at a bathing ghat on the Ganges in Banares (Varanasi), 1885.
Ranaghat Bridge or Churni River Bridge on Brahmaputra River near Pasighat in Arunachal Pradesh
Shiva, as Gangadhara, bearing the Descent of the Ganges, as the goddess Parvati, the sage Bhagiratha, and the bull Nandi look on (circa 1740).
A procession of Akharas marching over a makeshift bridge over the Ganges River. Kumbh Mela at Allahabad, 2001.
Head works of the Ganges canal in Haridwar (1860). Photograph by Samuel Bourne.
The Ganges Canal highlighted in red stretching between its headworks off the Ganges River in Haridwar and its confluences with the Jumna (Yamuna) River in Etawah and with the Ganges in Cawnpore (now Kanpur).
A girl selling plastic containers in Haridwar for carrying Ganges water.
Ganges from Space
Lesser florican (Sypheotides indicus)
The catla (Catla catla) is one of the Indian carp species that support major fisheries in the Ganges
The threatened gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) is a large fish-eating crocodilian that is harmless to humans
The Gangetic dolphin in a sketch by Whymper and P. Smit, 1894.
People bathing and washing clothes in the Ganges in Varanasi.
The Ganges at Sultanganj.

The mountain is located near Lake Manasarovar and Lake Rakshastal, close to the source of some of the longest Asian rivers: the Indus; Sutlej; Brahmaputra; and Karnali, also known as Ghaghara (a tributary of the Ganges) in India.

- Mount Kailash

With its origin in the Manasarovar Lake region, near Mount Kailash, on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet where it is known as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows along southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh.

- Brahmaputra River

In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Ganges, popularly known as the Padma in Bangladesh, and becomes the Meghna and ultimately empties into the Bay of Bengal.

- Brahmaputra River

It is then joined by the Jamuna, the lower stream of the Brahmaputra, and eventually the Meghna, forming the major estuary of the Ganges Delta, and emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

- Ganges

However, since her turbulent force would also shatter the earth, Bhagiratha persuades Shiva in his abode on Mount Kailash to receive the Ganges in the coils of his tangled hair and break her fall.

- Ganges

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