جہنو

जन्हु jahnu, s.m. Name of an ancient king and sage who adopted the Gangāas his daughter. (When the river Ganges was brought down from heaven by the austerities of Bhagīratha, it inundated in its course the sacrificial ground of Jahnu, who there fore drank up its waters, but consented at the praver of Bhagīratha to discharge them from his ears, and hence the river is regarded as his daughter, and is calledJāhnavī.)—jahnu-tanayā, jahnusutā, jahnu-kanyā, s.f. 'The daughter of Jahnu`, a name of the river Ganges.