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The town is quite an important religious place with several Brahman Temples and through our hotel we were taken by a Brahma priest (the highest caste and understood to be direct descendants of Brahman) to one of the many ghats surrounding the lake to take us through the Hindu prayers and the rituals they undertake whether it be on the ganges or here.
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- an Asian river; rises in the Himalayas and flows east into the Bay of Bengal; a sacred river of the Hindus
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The town is quite an important religious place with several Brahman Temples and through our hotel we were taken by a Brahma priest (the highest caste and understood to be direct descendants of Brahman) to one of the many ghats surrounding the lake to take us through the Hindu prayers and the rituals they undertake whether it be on the ganges or here.
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"ganges getwæman, nô ic him þäs georne ätfealh,
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"ganges getwǣman, nō ic him þæs georne ætfealh,
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609. gang, st. m.: 1) _gait, way_: dat.sg. on gange, 1885; gen.sg. ic hine ne mihte ... ganges ge-twæman, _could not keep him from going_, 969.
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1434; nô þær wæg-flotan wind ofer ýðum sîðes ge-twæfde (_the wind hindered not the wave-floater in her course over the water_), 1909; pret.part. ät rihte wäs gûð ge-twæfed (_almost had the struggle been ended_), 1659. ge-twæman, w.v. acc.pers. and gen. thing, _to hinder, render incapable of, restrain_: inf. ic hine ne mihte ... ganges getwæman, 969. twegen, m.f. n. twâ, num., _twain, two_: nom.m. twegen, 1164; acc.m. twegen, 1348; dat. twæm, 1192 gen. twega, 2533; acc.f. twâ, 1096, 1195. twelf, num., _twelve_, gen. twelfa, 3172. tweone (Frisian twine), num. = _bini, two_: dat.pl. be sæm tweonum, 859,
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