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Ganga Collection

Background imageGanga Collection: Maharajah of Bikanir (Bikaner), Indian ruler

Maharajah of Bikanir (Bikaner), Indian ruler
Maharaja Sir Ganga Singh (1880-1943), Reformist ruler of Bikaner in present-day Rajasthan, India, First World War. Date: circa 1913-1914

Background imageGanga Collection: Religion - India - Ganga

Religion - India - Ganga
King Shantanu meets GANGA, the goddess of the Ganges river, and she becomes his first queen provided he never speaks an angry word to her (which of course one day he does...)

Background imageGanga Collection: Boatman, Ganges, India

Boatman, Ganges, India
An Indian man rows an old wooden boat in the River Ganges along the ghats of Varanasi. Bathers are in the water Date: 1987

Background imageGanga Collection: India - Varanasi - Dashasomedh Ghat

India - Varanasi - Dashasomedh Ghat
India - Benares - Dashashwamedh Ghat - the main ghat in Varanasi on the Ganges River. It is located close to " Vishwanath Temple" Date: circa 1904

Background imageGanga Collection: Benares, India - Riverside Ghat

Benares, India - Riverside Ghat on the banks of the Holy River Ganges (a series of steps leading down to a body of water, particularly a holy river). Date: circa 1905

Background imageGanga Collection: India - Benares - Banks of the Ganges River

India - Benares - Banks of the Ganges River
Benares, India - situated on left bank of the Ganga (Ganges) River. Regarded as holy by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world

Background imageGanga Collection: Maharaja of Bikaner / Stamp

Maharaja of Bikaner / Stamp
Maharaja SIR GANGA SINGH (1880 - 1943) Reformist ruler of Bikaner in present-day Rajasthan, India, and the only non Anglo member of the British Imperial War Cabinet during World War I

Background imageGanga Collection: Birth of Ganges

Birth of Ganges
Ganga (the river Ganges), daughter of the moutain god Himalaya flows to earth from heaven through Shivas hair

Background imageGanga Collection: Parvatis Austerities

Parvatis Austerities
Parvati (Uma) is unable to distract Shiva from his contemplation by her beauty. She turns to asceticism, immersing herself in icy pools & wins his love

Background imageGanga Collection: Heroes Rise from Ganges

Heroes Rise from Ganges
The heroes slain in battle rise again from the river GANGES, proof if proof were needed of the magical power of the life-giving river, personified as goddess Ganga

Background imageGanga Collection: Religion / India / Ganga

Religion / India / Ganga
King Shantanu meets GANGA, the goddess of the Ganges river, and she becomes his first queen provided he never speaks an angry word to her (which of course one day he does...)


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