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What Indian river can you find buried bodies of the dead?
the answer is ganges
What are some uses of the Ganges River?
River Ganges is a Holy river for many religions. Hindus believe bathing in the river purifys them. The river is also used for "water burial". A floatable pyre is constructed for the body and set alight, it is then released into the river.
Do people put dead bodies into rivers?
Yes, in the Ganges River. You can see more if you type in Ganges into a website which shows videos. Not just a few bodies, but ALOT of bodies due to disease. What is crazy, they also use this river to fish, brush their teeth and to clean up.
How is pollution affecting other rivers in South Asia besides the ganges?
Pollution has affected the Ganges and the Yangtze rivers in many different ways. - The Ganges river is known to Hindus as a sacred river, so they wash their clothes in the river, take a bath there, put dead cows in (because cows are sacred to Hindus), put dead bodies in, and put their sewage and waste in. - The Yangtze river is full of chemical waste, trash, and sewage. It is very polluted.
What continent is the gauges river located on?
The Ganges river is located in the Indian subcontinent in Asia. It is not so much a river as an open sewer with all manner of dead bodies, human waste, and debris floating down to the sea.
What is done at the ganges river?
You name it , they do it, including bathing, washing, drinking the water, pissing and defecating in it, and sometimes throwing dead bodies that are not properly cremated. It is gross, but it happens.
How may pounds of garbage are in the Ganges river?
Millions of tons of trash, human waste, animal carcasses, and human bodies. The traditions is to inter the dead in the holy river, which is now little more than an open sewer.
How do Hindus interact with the Ganges river?
they take a dip in the river to spiritually enhance their current state of mind and to become one with god.
Why do the hindus think the river ganges are special?
Hindu believe that the river ganges are special because they are like no other river in the world. It contains water that science cannot explain the properties of. The water remains so clean that drinking this water causes no illness. so many people bathe in the ganges and wash in the ganges and yet it remain clean. the water is holy water and you have to experience the holliness yourself not by reading what others interpret the ganges as. It to will be special to you. It has been found that water of river ganges has more than usual amount of oxygen in it which means it is rich in oxygen content. Due to this it is not possible for any kind of micro organisms to survive in it. Scientific experiments done with ganges water has found dead bacteria in it. Personally, I believe that it is because of ganges that earliest human civilization flourished since they were protected from a lot of diseases by ganges river water.
What are the human features of Mount Everest?
some are the bramaputra river and the ganges river
Why do people bathe in the river ganges?
because it is sacred and it is like your getting bapitized .
Is it river ganges is very dirty?
Yes, the so-called "HOLY'" Ganges is very dirty because all of the drainage and sewage of all of the cities through which this river passes, goes into this river. People wash their clothes in this and even dead bodies are just floated in this river, which later rot and give off a foul smell. The government has wasted millions of rupees to clean it, but no cleaning will help unless the above is stopped.
