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ARTICLES RELATED TO Major Rivers of India | | | |  Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Ganges River SystemMain article : Ganga River
The Ganga acquires its name after its two headstreams - the Alaknanda and the Bhagirathi join at Devprayag. The Ganga enters the plains from the Himalayas at Haridwar. It is joined by a large number of tributaries from the north. Among them, the Ghaghara, the Gandak and the Kosi enter the northern plains of India from Nepal.
The Yamuna and the Son are the two main right bank tributaries of the Ganga. The Yamuna joins the Ganga at the Allahabad sangam. Beyond Farakka, the Gang ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Krishna River System Main article : Krishna River
The Krishna is one of the longest rivers of India (about 1300 km in length). It originates at Mahabaleswar in Maharashtra, passes through Sangli and meets the sea in the Bay of Bengal at Hamasaladeevi in Andhra Pradesh. The Krishna River flows through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The traditional source of the river is a spout from the mouth of a ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Kaveri River System Main article : Kaveri River
The Kaveri (also spelled Cauvery or Kavery) is one of the great rivers of India and is considered sacred by the Hindus. The headwaters are in the Western Ghats range of Karnataka state, and from Karnataka through Tamil Nadu. It empties into the Bay of Bengal. Its waters have supported irrigated agriculture for centuries, and the Kaveri has been the li ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Mahanadi River System Main article : Mahanadi River
The Mahanadi is a river of eastern India. The Mahanadi rises in the Satpura Range of central India, and flows east to the Bay of Bengal. The Mahanadi drains most of the state of Chhattisgarh and much of Orissa and also Jharkhand and Maharashtra. It has a length of about 860 km.
Near the city of Sambalpur, a large dam - the Hirakud Dam - is built on the river.
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Godavari River System Main article : Godavari River
The second largest river in India, Godavari is often referred to as the Vriddh (Old) Ganga or the Dakshin (South) Ganga. The name may be apt in more ways than one, as the river follows the course of Ganga's tragedy. The river is about 1,450 km (900 miles) long. It rises at Trimbakeshwar, near Nasik and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in Maharashtra around 380 km distance from the Arabian Sea, but flows southeast across south-central India through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - Rivers in Mythology
Major Rivers of India - Ganga.
The Ganga is personified in Hinduism as a goddess: Maa Ganga (Mother Ganga). Hindu legend makes her the foster-mother of Karttikeya, who was actually a son of Shiva and Parvati. Several places sacred to Hindus lie along the banks of the river Ganga, including Haridwar and Varanasi. It is believed that taking a dip in the river will wash away one's sins, and that having one's ashes disposed of in the Ganga after death may improve one's next life or even allow Moksha to be attained sooner. Devout Hindus make pi ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Tapti River System Main article : Tapti River
The Tapti is a river of central India. It is one of the major rivers of peninsular India with the lenth of around 724 km, and only the Tapti River along with the Narmada river, and the Mahi River run from east to west. It rises in the eastern Satpura Range of southern Madhya Pradesh state, and flows westward, draining Madhya Pradesh's historic Nimar region, Maharashtra's historic Kandesh and east Vidarbha regions in the northwest corner of the Deccan Plateau and South Gujarat before emptyi ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Indus River System Main article : Indus River
The Indus orginates in the northern slopes of the Kailash range in Tibet near the Mansarovar lake. It follows a north-westerly course through Tibet. It enters Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir. It forms a picturuesque gorge in this part. Several tributaries - the Zaskar, the Shyok, the Nubra and the Hunza join it in the Kashmir region. It flows through the regions of Ladakh, Baltistan and Gilgit and runs between the Ladakh Range and the Zaskar Range. It crosses the Himalayas through a ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Bramhaputra River System Main article : Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra originates in the Mansarovar lake, also the source of the Indus and the Satluj. It is slighty longer than the Indus, but most of its course lies ouside India. It flows eastward, parallel to the Himalayas. Reaching Namcha Barwa (7757 m), it takes a U-turn around it and enters India in Arunachal Pradesh. The undercutting done by this river is of the order of 5500 metres. In India, it flows thro ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - The Narmada River System Main article : Narmada River
The Narmada or Nerbudda is a river in central India. It forms the traditional boundary between North India and South India, and is a total of 1,289 km (801 mi) long. Of the major rivers of peninsular India, only the Narmada, the Tapti and the Mahi run from east to west. It rises on the summit of Amarkantak Hill in Madhya Pradesh state, and for the first 320 kilometres (200 miles) of its course winds among the Mandla Hills, which form the head of the Satpura Range; then at Jabalpur ...
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| | | | Major Rivers of India: Encyclopedia II - Major Rivers of India - Classification The rivers of India can be classified on the basis of origin and on the type of basin that they form
Major Rivers of India - On the basis of origin.
On the basis of origin, the rivers of India can be divided into Himalayan rivers and Peninsular rivers.
Himalayan rivers
The main Himalayan river systems are the Ganga, the Indus and the Brahmaputra river systems.
The Himalayan rivers form large basins. Many rivers pass through the Himalayas and have made spectacular gorges. These d ...
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