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a long poem by Kavikankan Mukundaram (1400 AD) a merchant, Lakshapati, on
his way to Sri Lanka (then Singhal) along the bank of Ajoy river crossed the Ganga
at Konnagar, Kolkata, Kalighat, Bostom Ghata (presently Baishnab Ghata), Mogra
etc. The Ramayana mentions Sagar Sangam, i.e., the marriage the Ganga with the
sea to which it flows in the Bay of Bengal. An island has emerged at the holy con-
fluence, called Sagar Dweep where a fair is held annually on Makar Sankranti day,
i.e., the end of winter solstice, usually in mid-January.
India's greatest Sanskrit poet, Kalidasa (500 AD) thus describes the Himalayan
city of Alaka (perhaps so named, being on the bank of Alakananda):
Where maidens whom the gods would gladly wed,
Are fanned by breezes, cooled by the Ganga's foam
In the shadows that the trees of heaven spread.
People, all over the world, believe their mythologies. The ones about the Ganga,
which is one of the mightiest and longest of the world's rivers, are no exception.
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