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Legend · 4 tellings · contested

Ganga comes down through Shiva's hair

King Sagara's sixty thousand sons, hunting his stolen sacrificial horse, accuse the sage Kapila and are burnt to ash by his glance.

Bhagiratha, Ganga, Shiva, Sagara

The Himalaya Pan-India West India