This figure once destroyed the fields of Jahnu, leading Jahnu to swallow this figure and eventually releaseher from his ears.
This figure once destroyed the fields of Jahnu, leading Jahnu to swallow this figure and eventually releaseher from his ears. One of this figure's epithets reflects the fact that she can traverse all three worlds. Thisfigure descended to earth after the sage Kapila burned the sixty thousand children of Sagara to death, andshe helped them ascend to heaven. In one story, this figure killed seven of her children until her husbandquestioned her actions with the eighth; that eighth child was Bhishima, who was the son of (*) Shantanu.During her descent to earth, she landed on Shiva's hair, which he knotted in order to trap her and attenuate the flowof her water to the earth. For 10 points, name this personification of a sacred river in Hindu mythology.
This figure once destroyed the fields of Jahnu, leading Jahnu to swallow this figure and eventually releaseher from his ears.
Ganga [accept the Ganges]