Abstract
THE November issue of Science and Culture, which is conducted by the Indian Science News Association with the aim of advocating the application of scientific knowledge to the national welfare of India, contains an interesting article on the antiquity of the Lower Ganges and its courses. Mr. N. K. Bhattasali approaches the subject from the historical point of view. Little that is very definite emerges from Mahabharata and Pauranic literature, though a certain amount of evidence as regards the various mouths of the river suggests relatively few major changes. Ptolemy in A.D. 150 gave a full account of the Lower Ganges, and Mr. Bhattasali finds that, allowing the necessary corrections for Ptolemy's longitudes, the five mouths of the river are in approximately the same longitudes to-day as about nineteen hundred years ago. There are several maps in the article, including Rennell's map of 1761 and van den Broucke's of 1660.
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Courses of the Lower Ganges. Nature 149, 468 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149468d0
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