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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....




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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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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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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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