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Who Bought River Ganga to Earth

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During Vamana avatar, Lord Vishnu has taken land from Bali with a wish of conquering as much as land his three steps. During the second step when he put on Brahma Loka lord Brahma wanted to cleanse the foot with water. That water flowed in four directions, water flown towards the south was entangled in Lord Shiva hair and this river is called as Ganga. Lord Shiva was fond of Ganga than Goddess Parvati. During that time there was a drought on earth for fourteen years. There was only one place which was not affected was sage Goutama hermitage. All people in surrounding places came to the sage hermitage for shelter. Lord Ganesh was unable to see his mother penance and decided to make a solution by bringing down Ganga to earth. He decided to go to sage Goutama hermitage in disguise manner and became friendly with other people. He requested Jaya who is one of goddess Parvati companion to adopt the form of a cow and pretend to be dead. Once this cow went to the farm of sage and