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1. Gangeyya. Adjective formed from Ganga (J.ii.151). The description "Gangeyya nāgaraja" in J. iii.362 probably means a nāga king "dwelling in Ganga" and not "named Gangeyya."

2. Gangeyya. One of the ten families of elephants. Each elephant had the strength of one hundred men. MA.i.262; AA.ii.822; BuA.37.


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