Monday, April 9, 2012

Indian Rivers-the Narmada.



The Narmada river is considered extremely holy as referred to in the Scriptures. 
 
गंगे यमुने चैव गोदावरि सरस्वति |
नर्मदे सिन्धुकाबेरि जलेऽस्मिऩ सन्निधिं कुरु ||
River Narmada.
Length. 830 miles.
Maximum width 13 to 21 miles.
It runs through MP Maharashtra  Rajasthan and Gujarat.

The  most  sacred rivers of India are Ganga Yamuna Godavari Sarswati, Narmada, Sindhu  and Kaveri, a dip in any of these  rivers washes ones sins away..  
The dams on Narmada river benefits  Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan that  include provision for drinking water, power generation and irrigation facilities. 
The Narmada, rises in the Maikala Range the Narmada Kund on the Amarkantaka hill in the Annupur district in east  Madhya Pradesh.
The Narmada River runs 11 miles south-southwest of Jabalpur after forming the Dhuandhar waterfall, the river passes through the famous Marble Rocks, which are an attraction to the tourists.
Following a tortuous course through the hills of Mandla, it enters the structural trough between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges at Marble Rocks Gorge and then flows westward across Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, entering the Gulf of Cambay through an estuary 13 miles wide, just below Bharuch. Along its 800-mile course, the Narmada drains the northern slopes of the Satpura Range. Called Namade by the 2nd-century-ad Greek geographer Ptolemy, the river has always been an important route between the Arabian Sea and the Ganges River valley. Holy scriptures describe it sprang from the body of the god Shiva, and the Narmada ranks only after the Ganges in sanctity. The pradaksina pilgrimage takes pilgrims from Bharuch to Amarkantak hill, up one bank of the river and down the other.

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