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Ganges

The named sacred river of North India, personified as Gaṅgā. Not a generic river word, and not every bathing-ghāṭ as the whole stream.

Also known as Gaṅgā · Ganga River

Vedic tradition

Ganges appears in Vedic tradition.
Ṛgveda 10.75 (the Nadīstuti) names Gaṅgā among the praised rivers of the hymn’s river-list. A named Vedic Ganges in that corpus, not later bathing-ghāṭ Hinduism alone and not Sarasvatī as a second river-being.
from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older
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sources

The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)
Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.