who brought GANGES on earth?

Answer 1

The king Sagara had two wives. By a favour of the lord Shiva, one wife bore him sixty thousand sons, all of whom were to die simultaneously, and the other bore him one son, Asamanjas, who would continue the dynasty. The sixty thousand sons grew to be great warriors, while the mighty Asamanjas caused so much misery to the populace that his father the king had to expel his own son, though a grandson, Ansuman, was left behind. King Sagara once performed the horse ceremony, in which a horse is allowed to roam at will, and is followed by warriors. Stopping the horse is a challenge to war; not stopping it is a compact of obeisance. In this instance, the sixty thousand sons were following the horse, but surprisingly, the horse was lost. After much recrimination, they dug up the entire earth and the underworld, the oceans, searching for the horse. Eventually it was found in a deep cavern, loitering close to where the sage Kapila sat in radiant meditation. The sons gathered the horse but they disturbed the great Kapila (Vasudeva), who was very annoyed, and instantly burnt them to ash with his fiery gaze.

Sagara heard of this fate through Narada, the heavenly wanderer, and sent the grandson Ansuman to undo the harm. Ansuman descended to the underworld and met Kapila, who was much pleased with the youth's bearing and conversation. He granted that the soulse of the sons of Sagara may be released by the waters of Ganga, then resident in heaven. Despite much austerity and prayer, neither Sagara, nor Ansuman after him, nor his son Dilipa, could get Ganga to appear on earth. Finally it was Dilipa's son Bhagiratha, who after severe austerities, propitiated the Goddess, and she agreed to come down to earth. However, the impact of her fall would be so severe, that it could be borne by none less than Shiva himself. Therefore Bhagiratha went into meditation again and obtained Shiva's consent after many more austerities. Finally, the river came down and fell into Shiva's matted hair, and thence to earth. This is the presumed site of the present-day temple at Gangotri. Bhagiratha led the way on horse back and the river followed. In this manner they reached the spot where lay the ashes of the six thousand sons. They were thus liberated, and an ocean formed from the waters there. This is the Sagar Island of today, where the Ganges flows into the Bay of Bengal ("Sagara' is also Sanskrit for ocean).

Answer 2

Ganges or Ganga was brought to the Earth by King of Ayodhya Bhagarath. So the holy river Ganga is also known as Bhagarathi. The details about this event are given nicely at wikipedia.com in brief.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagiratha

Answer 3

According to Mythology it was King Baheeratha -a forefather of sri.Raama--brought Ganga (Ganges is the name given by the Britishers) to earth from Heaven,after hectic Penance to overcome each hurdle and he faced many hurdles and had to do hectic Penance many times..So Ganga gets the name Baaheerathi--"Baheerathasya Putri Baaheerathi"

Some friend has written sri.Ganesa spilled the pot--it is the mythology related to another river in the South called Cauvery.Cauvery was confined by sri.Agasthya in his drinking,small pot.sri.Ganesa for the benifit of commoners spilled the pot in the form of a crow.

The small orifice in a rock in the Himalaya mountain from Ganga comes out look like the mouth of a cow.So it is called GOMUKI--Go=cow--Muki=mouth.(the glaciers melting, passing through many orifices at upper regions and delivered through the Gomuki) It is nature's formation--not man made -No Engineering skill involved.

Answer 4

Ssrvj is correct according to Hindu Mythology that is the story, only thing I can add to that is: it took three generations to do very difficult tapasya to accomplish this.

If you get a chance to go to the origin it is a magnificent site, the wall of the mountain where the river starts looks like it was carved using lasers.

so It could be that they had technology back then and the project to release the water from glacier stuck between the mountains took a massive engineering project which took 3 generations to complete.

Answer 5

Bagheeratha. He brought ganges from the heavens and Ganesha spilled the vessel in which Bagheeratha brought ganges at himalayas...

Answer 6

Bhagirath

Answer 7

Bagheeratha.

Answer 8

We cannot speak of Hinduism’s pantheon of gods without mentioning its most sacred river—the Ganges. Much of Hindu mythology is directly related to the river Ganges, or Ganga Ma (Mother Ganga), as devout Hindus call it. They recite a prayer that includes 108 different names for the river. Why is the Ganges so revered by sincere Hindus? Because it is so closely associated with their daily survival and with their ancient mythology. They believe that it formerly existed in the heavens as the Milky Way. Then how did it come to be a river?

With some variations most Hindus would explain it like this: Maharajah Sagara had 60,000 sons who were killed by the fire of Kapila, a manifestation of Vishnu. Their souls were condemned to hell unless the goddess Ganga would come down from heaven to cleanse them and release them from the curse. BhagÄ«ratha, a great-grandson of Sagara, interceded with Brahma to allow the sacred Ganga to come down to the earth. One account continues: “Ganga replied. ‘I am so mighty a torrent I would shatter the earth’s foundations.’ So [BhagÄ«ratha], after doing penance for a thousand years, went to the god Shiva, the greatest of all ascetics, and persuaded him to stand high above the earth amidst the rock and ice of the Himalayas. Shiva had matted hair piled on his head, and he allowed Ganga to thunder down from the skies into his locks, which absorbed gently the earth-threatening shock. Ganga then trickled softly out on to the earth and flowed down from the mountains and across the plains, bringing water and therefore life to the dry earth.”—From the Ocean to the Sky, by Sir Edmund Hillary.

The followers of Vishnu have a somewhat different version of how the Ganges was started. According to an ancient text, the Vishnu Purana, their version is:

“From this region [the holy seat of Vishnu] proceeds the river Ganges, that removes all sins . . . She issues from the nail of the great toe of Vishnu’s left foot.”

Or as Vishnu’s followers say in Sanskrit: “Visnu-padabja-sambhuta,” which means “Born of the lotus-like foot of Vishnu.”

Hindus believe that the Ganges has the power to release, purify, cleanse, and cure believers. The Vishnu Purana states:

“Saints, who are purified by bathing in the waters of this river, and whose minds are devoted to Kesava [Vishnu], obtain final liberation. The sacred river, when heard of, desired, seen, touched, bathed in, or hymned, day by day purifies all beings. And those who living even at a distance . . . exclaim ‘Ganga and Ganga’ are relieved of the sins committed during the three previous existences.”

The Brahmandapurana states:

“Those who bathe devoutly once in the pure currents of the Ganga, their tribes are protected by Her from hundreds of thousands of dangers. Evils accumulated through generations are destroyed. Just by bathing in the Ganga one gets immediately purified.”

Indians flock to the river to perform puja, or worship, by offering flowers, chanting prayers, and receiving from a priest the tilak, the spot of red or yellow paste on the forehead. Then they wade into the waters to bathe. Many will also drink the water, even though it is heavily polluted by sewage, chemicals, and cadavers. Yet such is the spiritual attraction of the Ganges that it is the ambition of millions of Indians to bathe at least once in their ‘holy river,’ polluted or not.

Others bring the bodies of their loved ones to be burned on pyres by the riverside, and then the ashes may be strewn in the river. They believe that this guarantees eternal bliss for the departed soul. Those too poor to pay for a funeral pyre just push the shrouded body off into the river, where it is attacked by scavenger birds or just decomposes.

Answer 9

The river in India? It got there like any other river

Answer 10

god did