Place · sacred river · India
Krishnā
Also known as Krishna River, Krishnā
The 1,400-kilometre south-flowing river rising at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats and reaching the Bay of Bengal through the Krishna-Godavari delta in Andhra Pradesh. Her catchment holds Srisailam (jyotirlinga on the Nallamala), Vijayawada (Kanaka Durga shrine), Amaravati (Satavahana Buddhist capital) and the Nagarjunakonda archaeological zone. The Bachawat tribunal awards of the 1970s divided her waters between Maharashtra, Karnataka and the then undivided Andhra Pradesh; the Krishna-Godavari basin is now central to the Telangana–Andhra Pradesh bifurcation politics.
- Periods
- Classical and Puranic Age
- Function
- Sacred site & pilgrimage
- Tradition
- Purānic geography
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 16.500, 77.500 (approximate)
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Krishna river”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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