Ganga Sagar - Ganga-Sagara Sangam and Kapila Muni Ashram

► Ganga Sagar
(South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal)

◉ Ganga - Sagara Sangam (Confluence)
◼ Kapil Kund
(Lower Ganga Plain)

• Kapila: Lord Kapila (Kapil Muni) is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He delivered 60000 sons of king Sagara (with the touch of river Ganga) in Ganga Sagar who were earlier reduced to ashes by his anger. There is a hermitage of Kapil Muni in Ganga Sagar.
- Kapil Muni Ashram

• Ganga: King Bhagaratha performed penance and brought river Ganga to Ganga Sagar after descent from the celestial region (to deliver the 60000 sons of king Sagara).
- Ganga Sagar

• Sages: Sages associated with Ganga Sagar:

○ Kapila: There is a hermitage of Kapil Muni in Ganga Sagar.


देवि सुरेश्वरि भगवति गङ्गे त्रिभुवनतारिणि तरलतरङ्गे ।
शङ्करमौलिविहारिणि विमले मम मतिरास्तां तव पदकमले ॥
- Ganga Stotram - verse 1 (River Ganga merges with the Sea at Ganga Sagar)