Bhagiratha
Hindu · mortal · vedic · Recorded classification
His name is a common noun in modern Indian languages — bhagirath prayatna, a Bhagiratha-effort, means an undertaking of superhuman persistence — which is a good measure of how large a figure the corpus was missing. The Ganges is called Bhagirathi after him along her upper course.
Domains
- ascetic perseverance
Relations
- great grandson of: SagaraIn-batch, and recorded as a relation rather than in parentIds because the treatment gives the degree and not the intervening names.Reference treatment of Bhagiratha as Sagara's great-grandson. (secondary)
- brought down: GaṅgāNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Ganga record. THE CORPUS ALREADY HELD THE RIVER and did not hold the man who brought her, which is the lane-16 pattern once more: it held the famous name and not the act that put her where she is.Reference treatment: Bhagiratha, after strenuous penances, at last succeeded in bringing Ganga down from heaven. (secondary)
Sources
- Bhagiratha is Sagara's great-grandson, who brought the Ganges down from heaven by penance to deliver the ashes of the sixty thousand.: Reference treatments of Bhagiratha, Sagara and Kapila. (secondary)