Adhyaya 74: Ganga in Shiva’s Matted Locks: Gautama’s Austerity, Ganesha’s Stratagem, and the Twofold Descent

Adhyaya 74 is framed as a Nārada–Brahmā dialogue explaining how the Goddess Gaṅgā, residing in Śiva’s matted locks and associated with Brahmā’s kamaṇḍalu, comes to be “bifurcated” in her terrestrial d