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gaṅgāya

gaṅgā

fem instr sg of gaṅgā (noun); fem dat sg of gaṅgā (noun); fem abl sg of gaṅgā (noun); fem gen sg of gaṅgā (noun); …

  1. name of a river; one of the five great rivers of ancient India
  2. river

Etymology. From Sanskrit gaṅgā. The etymology is uncertain; possibly from a root meaning "going" or "flowing" (related to √gam "go"), though this derivation is not firmly established in the tradition. The river's name has no clear cognates in Greek or Latin.

Meanings from the Digital Pāḷi Dictionary; morphology and etymology by Claude.

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