Sentence examples for ganges past from inspiring English sources
There is nothing like waking up at dawn to take a boat ride down the Ganges, past the men standing mid-waist in water, placing their hands together in prayer and chanting to the mother goddess Ganges.
In 2016, the section of the Ganges flowing past Varanasi is one of the most polluted bodies of water on the planet.
And, while his campaign stuck for the most part to sweeping generalities about prosperity and good governance, essentially vowing to replicate nationwide his success as chief minister of Gujarat, Modi did make one concrete, actionable promise: to clean up the grossly polluted Ganges, the most sacred stretch of which flows past the temples and cremation grounds of Varanasi.
"I said to myself, 'Wouldn't it be great if I could get a thousand oil lamps in vessels made out of dry banana leaves and twigs floating past my visitors as they went on the Ganges?'" Shah says.
FDP is formed by the deposition of present and past meandering rivers and is drained by the major distributaries and sub-distributaries of the Ganges river such as the Madhumati, Betna, and Bhairab rivers.
Egrets picked their way along the banks, past pilgrims taking a dip near the auspicious point of confluence, where the Yamuna meets the Ganges.
In 1785 the Brahmaputra flowed past the city of Mymensingh; it now flows more than 40 miles (65 km) west of it before joining the Ganges.
It joins the Ganges northeast of Munger.
He swims in the ashy Ganges.
Five nights at the Taj Ganges.
