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Yāmuna Summary
689 words, approx. 2 pages
YĀMUNA (fl. c. 1022–1038), known in Tamil as Ᾱḻavandār; Hindu philosopher, theologian, and devotional poet. Yāmuna lived in the Tamil-speaking area of South India and represented a learned family of brahmans...
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Jumna River Summary
208 words, approx. 1 pages
The Jumna (or Yamuna) River rises in the Indian Himalayas in the north of Uttar Pradesh state, at the southwestern base of the Jamnotri Peaks, near the Jamnotri hot springs, at an elevation of 3,307 meters. It flows south to break through the Siwalik...
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Yamuna Information
1,096 words, approx. 4 pages
The Yamuna (Sanskrit: यमुना, sometimes called Jamuna or Jumna) is a major tributary river of the Ganges (Ganga) in northern India. With a total length of around 1,370 kilometers (851 mi), it is the largest tributary of the Ganges....


News and Journals
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Anthropological Quarterly
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India
07/01/2007: 1,341 words, approx. 5 pages
David L. Haberman, River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 296 pp. What is the role-perhaps even the responsibility-of religion in a world quickly and alarmingly succumbing to environmental degradation?...
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South Asian Journal of Management
Resource Accounting for Regional Water Resource Management: A Case Study of Yamuna River Sub-basin
04/01/2004: 5,689 words, approx. 19 pages
Water is an important resource as well as a constraint to the development of a region. Owing to the multiplicity of dimensions associated with water resource management, it crosses several disciplines and often calls for an integrated approach towards it. This paper argues for...
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AP News
Dozens of rare reptiles die in India
1/22/2008: 361 words, approx. 1 pages
Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.Everything from parasites to pollution has been blamed for the deaths of the gharials — massive reptiles that look...
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AP News
Millions of Hindus wash away their sins
1/15/2007: 282 words, approx. 1 pages
Hundreds of Hindu holy men, naked but for the ash smeared on their bodies and an occasional marigold garland, led a sea of humanity to the waters of the Ganges River Monday to wash away their sins at the apex of a weekslong pilgrimage.By midmorning...
 


 

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