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Ganges
     
Ganges

the Ganges

a long river which flows though northern India and provides water for the fields in India and Bangladesh. To the Hindus the Ganges is a holy river, and many Hindus go to the river as pilgrims and wash themselves in it.
—Gangetic adjective:
• the Gangetic plain
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