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Have you ever heard of Karamnasha River! So this thread is going to take a dig from Mythological to Scientific aspects of this river.
Karamnasha originates in the Kaimur District of Bihar at a height of 350 m and flows through between Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It covers Sonebhadra, Chandauli and Ghazipur from UP and Kaimur and Buxar in Bihar. It joins River Ganga at Bada in Ghazipur and Chausa in Bihar.
The length of the river is 192 km out of which major area is covered in UP. The river belongs to fall of Rajdari and covers major plain areas of East Up and Bihar. Other rivers which join this are Chandra prabha, khajuri and Durgavati.
Interestingly all the rivers in India have mention in the ancient Vedas. So there are some mythological stories for this river too. Karamnasa as the name suggest means Destroyer of Good Karma. This river is said to cursed and it is said that it destroys the Good Deeds of Person.
As according to one of the legends, once Rishi Vishvamitra through his penance got the power to make a new universe according to his wish. So, he created whole new universe and then created his first human being named Trishanku and he was made to rule universe created by Him.
There was fight between Indra and Vishwa mitra and Trishanku was suspended upside down in this process. His saliva created this river. Other stories suggest that this was due to fight between Vishwamitra and Vashistha that lead to suspension of Satyavrat, father of HarishChandra.
Another Mythological story relates to part where Varun Dev filled belly of Ravan with water when he was returning with Shivling from Himalaya. The river is said to be belonging to that discharge and hence this adds to defiling properties of this river.
It took a long time built a bridge on this river as everytime the plan failed due to the soil texture and river bed. A detail narrative of bridge building on this river is mentioned in the link below.
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A video I made last year for this river....
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