Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.110
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.110
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6) *Gaṅgā set on the thighs of Pratīpa.* Gaṅgā once fell in love with Pratīpa, father of Śantanu, and set on his right thigh he (Pratīpa) was doing penance on the banks of the Gaṅgā for a son. Pratīpa did not agree to Gaṅgā’s proposal that he should marry her and told her thus: “the right thigh is for the children and daughters-in-law to sit on and the left thigh for the wife; therefore, you be my son’s wife.”