Possible Clues:

• Groups of workmen embracing oriental sacred flower
• Asian banker's problem about say getting a rise
• River rising in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal
• Hindus' most sacred river
• An egg's to be cooked in holy water
• River runs away from farmhouses
• Holy Indian river
• Holy water in east groups of people swallow
• River sacred to over a billion
• Major river of India