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13 unusual facts about Yamuna


Chhai Pokhar

River Yamuna locally pronounced as Jamuna, takes course at about 15 km from here.

G. R. Sharma

The ruins of this ancient city were found on the left bank of the river Yamuna, 70 km south-west from Allahabad.

Jhingan

Saraswat Brahmins are Brahmins who lived on the banks of the former Sarasvati River that once flowed in northern India, joining the Ganges and Yamuna in Prayag.

Jijivisha

Jijivisha is a documentary on the river Yamuna made in 2005 by Swechha with contributions from Kuber Sharma, Ishita Moitra, Shirley Abraham, Charulatha Menon and Amit Madheshia.

Kushok Bakula Rinpoche

The Manorathapurani and the Pali version of Milindapanha maintain him as being born at Kaushambi in a minister's family and then having been swallowed by a fish in the Yamuna river that was later caught by an angler.

Mandala 7

The rivers mentioned in the 7th Mandala are the Sarasvati, Asikni, Parusni and possibly the Yamuna (in 7.18.19 the name of a helper of Indra, maybe also the name of a woman or goddess).

Neighborhoods of Allahabad

It encompasses a large area and is an inland peninsula surrounded by the rivers Ganges and Yamuna from three sides with only one side connected to the mainland.

Along with a large number of areas within Allahabad City, there are several satellite cities on the other side of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, and are considered as satellite cities of Allahabad.There are also a large number of Townships and Villages near Allahabad City Within Allahabad District.

Pallas's Fish Eagle

Another case of lifting a great load in this species is when, in the Yamuna River in north-central India, an eagle captured a huge carp and flew with the struggling fish very low over the water, before dropping it in response to gunfire.

Phoolka

The Guru Har Rai had blessed him thus: You feel’eth hunger now, worry no more...your house shall be a very big Charity House ....donating and feeding many…….the horses of you Armies shall graze in grasslands spanning the area between the Yamuna and Sutlej .

Sengar River

Sengar River is a tributary of the river Yamuna in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Sheba Chhachhi

Her investigations with globalization and its effects on urban transformations continued further with video installation 'The Water Diviner' (2008) hosted by Volte, New Delhi and the installation 'Black Waters Will Burn'(2011), at the Yamuna River in New Delhi, which was produced for the Yamuna-Elbe Public Art and Outreach Project.

Subhash vihar

It is 5 km from River Yamuna and 8 km to ISBT Kashmiri Gate, it come under the legislative assembly of Ghonda.


Battle of Karnal

The Mughal army was lined up with Sa'adat Khan forming the right wing, which was in the extreme east and near the Yamuna river.

Braj

Covering an area of about 3,800 km2 today, Brajbhoomi can be divided into two distinct units - the eastern part in the trans-Yamuna tract with places like Gokul, Mahavan, Sadabad, Baldeo, Mat and Manigarhi (Nauhjheel) Bajna; and the western side of the Yamuna covering the Mathura region that encompasses Vrindavan, Govardhan, Kusum Sarovar, Barsana and Nandgaon.

Charmanwati

The basket floated from the river Aswa to the river Charmanwati, and from the Charmanwati it passed to the Yamuna, and so on to the Ganges (3:306) and reached the city called Champapuri the capital of Anga Kingdom.

Climate of Uttar Pradesh

Floods are a known hazard of U.P. due to overflowing of its main rivers like Ganga, Yamuna, Ramganga, Gomti, Sharda, Ghaghra, Rapti and Gandak.

Dhanu

During this festival, which runs from 16 December until the beginning of January, Bargarh becomes known as Mathura, the Jura River becomes Yamuna and the village Amapalli, (which is situated on the other bank of the river), becomes Gokul.

Drsadvati River

Sahibi has much lower flow at present time because of low rainfall in catchment area, though having wide dry beds at places, which carries the water from south to north from Districts of Jaipur, Sikar, Alwar Rewari, Jhajjar, Rohtak and Delhi in Yamuna.

Howrah–Delhi main line

From Rajmahal, construction progressed rapidly, moving westward along the banks of the Ganges, reaching Bhagalpur in 1861, Munger in February 1862, and opposite Varanasi (across the Ganges) in December 1862 and then on to Naini on the bank of the Yamuna.

Kakripur

Bounded by Ailum to the north, Ramala to the south, Asara to the east and Kirthal to the west, the village is on the national highway connecting Delhi and Saharnpur, 23 km from the river Yamuna.

Kamleshwar

By late 1970s, he had made his first short TV film the “Jamuna Bazar”, near river Yamuna in Delhi, and soon switched to television scriptwriting, and eventually became the 'Additional Director General' of Doordarshan, India's national television channel, (1980–82), during his tenure, in a matter of 24 months, the entire nation was connected with television network.

Megasthenes' Herakles

As was common in the ancient period, the Greeks sometimes described foreign gods in terms of their own divinities, and there is a little doubt that the Sourasenoi refers to the Shurasenas, a branch of the Yadu dynasty to which Krishna belonged; Herakles to Krishna, or Hari-Krishna: Mehtora to Mathura, where Krishna was born; Kleisobora to Krishnapura, meaning "the city of Krishna"; and the Jobares to the Yamuna, the famous river in the Krishna story.

Shubha Lagnam

This movie was remade in Tamil as Irattai Roja with Ramki, in Kannada as Ganga Yamuna with Shivrajkumar , in Hindi as Judaai with Anil Kapoorand also later remade into Malayalam as 'Sundara purushan" with Suresh Gopi .

Tilaka

Vaishnavas apply clay from a holy river or place (such as Vrindavanam or the Yamuna river) which is sometimes mixed with sandalwood paste.

Triveni Sangam

On the bank of the Ganges at Daraganj, just before the confluence of ganga and Yamuna, the well known statistician Ravindra Khattree spent his early years when he attended Ewing Christian College, situated on the bank of Yamuna few miles before the confluence and the famous writer "Surya Kant Tripathi 'Nirala'" also spent his whole life at the same place (Daraganj).

Udayagiri Caves

Asher identified further potential political allegories in two figures depicted on one of the two projecting walls, who were female personifications of Gaṅgā and Yamunā, the rivers that flowed through the heartland of the Gupta Empire.

Vithoba Temple, Pandharpur

They reply, they are the Ganga (Ganges), Yamuna and other holy rivers of India—revered for their holiness.

Yamuna Krishnan

Yamuna Krishnan (born 25 May 1974) is a Reader in National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India.