Great river · flows east
Gaṅgā
गङ्गा
Leaves Padma lake by the eastern gate, falls into Bharat and runs to the eastern sea.
It runs 500 yojana east along the crest of Himavān before turning south and dropping off the mountain into Bharat Kṣetra from a diamond spout shaped like a makara's open jaws. Where it lands there is a pool 60 yojana wide and 10 deep, with an island 8 across in the middle carrying Gaṅgā-devī's house. The Digambara account puts a jewel hill 10 yojana high on the island and sets the pool 25 yojana out from the cliff; the Śvetāmbara sūtra gives neither.
In Bharat it passes through a gap in Vaitāḍhya, then turns east to the ocean, splitting the region's eastern khaṇḍas. With Sindhu and Vaitāḍhya it makes the six divisions of Bharat.
14,000 tributaries feed it.
माप और संख्याएँ
| Rises from | Padma Draha |
|---|---|
| Crosses | Bharat Kṣetra |
| Flows | east |
| Twin | Sindhu |
| Ends in | Lavaṇa Samudra |
| Width, source → mouth | 6¼ → 62½ yojana |
| Depth, source → mouth | ½ kośa → 1¼ yojana |
| Falls | a little over 100 yojana |
| Pool at the foot | 60 across · 10 deep |
| Island in the pool | 8 across |
| Spout | ½ long · 6¼ wide · ½ kośa thick |