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	Jumna - Encyclopedia.com
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	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Jumna.html (415 words)

	JUMNA - LoveToKnow Article on JUMNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Jumna, after issuing from the hills, has a longer course through the United Provinces than the Ganges, but is not so large nor so important a river; and above Agra in the hot season it dwindles to a small stream.
		The traffic on the Jumna is not very considerable; in its upper portion timber, and in the lower stone, grain and cotton are the chief articles of commerce, carried in the clumsy barges which navigate its stream.
		The Jumna at its source near Jamnotri is 10,849 ft. above the sea-level; at Kotnur, 16 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JU/JUMNA.htm (565 words)

	Yamuna
		The river Yamuna is personified as the daughter of the Sun by his wife Sanjna.
		The river then assumed a human form and besought his forgiveness, but it was some time before she could appease him.
		Wilson thinks that "the legend probably alludes to the construction of canals from the Jumna for the purposes of irrigation." The river is also called Kalindi, from the place of its source, Suryaja, from her father, and Triyama.
	www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/yamuna.htm (286 words)

	DELHI - LoveToKnow Article on DELHI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It lies in the south-east corn.er of the province of the Punjab, to which it was added in 1858, and abuts on the right bank of the river Jumna.
		The northern wall, famous in the siege of Delhi in 1857, extends three-quarters of a mile from the Water bastion to the Shah, commonly known as the Mori, bastion; the length of the west wall from this bastion to the Ajmere gate is 13/4 m.
		The imperial palace (1638-1648), flOW known as the Fort, is situated on the east of the city, and abuts directly on the river.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DE/DELHI.htm (6265 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
		In 1620 she took her vows as a Franciscan nun and in 1627 became abbess of a Franciscan monastery in Agreda, retaining this office, except for a brief period, until her death.
		It lies on a plateau encircled by low cliffs overlooking the junction of the Drago (ancient Hypsas) and San Biagio (Acragas) rivers and is dominated from the north by...
		The town is a port on a wide bay formed on the south by the hills of Punta Higuero (Jiguera) and on the north by Punta Borinquen, the northwestern corner of the island.
	www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/a/a20.html (1597 words)

	JUMNA, or JAMUNA - Online Information article about JUMNA, or JAMUNA
		The Jumna here emerges from the Himalayas into the valley of the Dun, and flows in a S.W. direction for 22 m., dividing the Kiarda Dun on the W. from the See also:
		waters of the Hindan river on the east.
		The headworks of the two canals are situated near the point where the river issues from the Siwaliks.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /JEE_JUN/JUMNA_or_JAMUNA.html (904 words)

	Daniell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hindoo Temples at Bindabund on the River Jumna
		The Mausoleum of Mucdoom Shah Dowlut, at Moneah, on the River Soane
		Hindoo Temples at Agouree, on the River Soane, Bahar
	www.goethals.org /daniell124.htm (471 words)

	Terai_Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This strip may be said to extend roughly from the Jumna river on the west to the Brahmaputra on the east.
		At its northern edge, where the waterless forest tract of the Bhabhar ends, a series of springs burst from the surface, and these, increasing and uniting in their progress, form the numerous streams that intersect the Terai.
		The Deoha is the great river of the Terai proper, and is navigable at Pilibhit.
	www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Terai_Region (119 words)

	The Economic History of the City of Delhi, Old and New
		Delhi is in the Ganges River Basin on the banks of the tributary Jumna River.
		Historically Delhi was located on the west bank of the Jumna because there was a tradition in the region that cities should be on the right bank of the direction of the flow and that the left bank should be left wild.
		Delhi is affectively at a juncture of the Ganges River Valley and the Indus River Valley where the Deccan Plateau and Thar Desert come their closest to the Himalaya Mountains and thus create the corridor where Delhi is located.
	www.applet-magic.com /delhi2.htm (1353 words)

	Yamuna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The major tributaries of this river are the Tons, Chambal, Betwa, Sindh and Ken; with the Tons being the largest.
		According to legend the goddess of the river is the sister of the Hindu god of death, Yama and the daughter of Surya, the Sun god.
		The river Yamuna is also connected to the mythology surrounding the Hindu god Krishna.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/Y/Yamuna.htm (326 words)

	BDesh Fact's Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		River traffic is insignificant above the Middle Ganges Basin around Allahabad, where railways serve the region, but the rural people of West Bengal and Bangladesh continue to rely on the waterway to transport their agricultural products.
		A river that is both beneficial and destructive, the Brahmaputra deposits large amounts of fertile alluvial soil while at the same time causing disastrous and frequent floods.
		Roads and railroads run along the river, but traffic between the river's banks is dependent on the ferries for crossing.
	www.ccsi.com /~farah/bdesh/Factlink.html (1024 words)

	Yamuna River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Eastern and Western Yamuna canals are fed from the river at that point.
		It lies between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, west of the Upper Ganges Plain.
		It was on the south bank of the Yamuna River, outside the city of Agra, that Jahan decided to erect his memorial.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9077786 (944 words)

	Canal
		Cape Cod Canal The Cape Cod Canal is a man-made waterway traversing the narrow neck of land that anchors Massachusetts.
		Gloucester and Sharpness Canal The Gloucester and Sharpness Canal is a River Severn.
		At this time the biggest challange is relinking the canal to the river t...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/canal.html (2221 words)

	Chaula Shah: Causal
		Likewise, the river Jumna also causes deterioration to the monument because the city has an inefficient sewage disposal method.
		Anil Maheshwari states that the rotting sewage materials in the river occur due to the human and the animal waste which leads to the sewage problem (116).
		As a result, the river Jumna causes severe rusting of the marble joints that undermine the monument.
	www.unc.edu /~dcderosa/STUDENTPAPERS/English111/chaulashah.html (2964 words)

	E N C Y C L O P E D I A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		His messengers, Yama-dutas, bring in the souls of the dead, and the door of his judgment-hall is kept by his porter, Vaidhyata.
		Bala-rama, in a state of inebriety, called upon her to come to him that he might bathe, and as she did not heed, he, in a great rage, seized his ploughshare-weapon, dragged her to him and compelled her to follow him whithersoever he wandered through the wood.
		Wilson thinks that “the legend probably alludes to the construction of canals from the Jumna for the purposes of Irrigation.” The river is also called Kalindi, from the place of its source, Surya-ja, from her father, and Tri-yama.
	www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopY.asp (3995 words)

	AGRA CANAL - LoveToKnow Article on AGRA CANAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The canal receives its water from the Jumna river at Okla, about 10 m.
		The weir across the Jumna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand; it is about 800 yds.
		From Okla the canal follows the high land between the Khari-nadi and the Jumna, and finally joins the Banganga river about 20 m.
	30.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AG/AGRA_CANAL.htm (124 words)

	Yamuna: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The river Yamuna which now parallels the Ganga is supposed...distance between the present valley of the Yamuna and the ancient Ghaggar valley is less...eastwards, to the jungles of the Ganga-Yamuna river system which receded in this period...
		...the Goswamis ashram on the banks of the Yamuna River in Vrindaban, was during the final...the ancient city of Mathura on the Yamuna River at the very end of the third era...clothes of young women bathing in the Yamuna River, and he stole the hearts of everyone...
		...green groves on the banks of the River Yamuna in north India, was of deep spiritual...ladies, roved in a grove on the bank of the Yamuna, where blew on all sides a gentle breeze...walkways and canals, on the banks of the Yamuna at Agra, downstream from Vrindavan.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/yamuna.jsp?l=Y&p=1 (1695 words)

	AGRA - Online Information article about AGRA
		Jumna, which washes the walls of its fort, was the natural See also:
		Ganges and the Jumna against their western neighbours, hereditary freebooters who occupied the See also:
		The river formed an unfordable barrier and also a useful means of communication.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ADA_AIZ/AGRA.html (1386 words)

	Taj Mahal > ENGINEERING.com > Articles Page
		Visible beyond the mausoleum is the Yamuna River.
		Taj Mahal at dusk, on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, Agra, India.
		In its harmonious proportions and its fluid incorporation of decorative elements, the Taj Mahal is distinguished as the finest example of Mughal architecture, a blending of Indian, Persian, and Islamic styles.
	engineering.com /Library/ArticlesPage/tabid/85/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/76/Taj-Mahal.aspx (549 words)

	Maui Varnashrama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Mathura, on the banks of the river Jumna 150 kms south of Delhi, is a sacred city for Hindus.
		It was laid out in the 1750s along the west bank of the river Jumna, north of Shah Jahan's palace and fort in Delhi, which may be seen in the distance.
		William recorded that, 'The river is here too rapid to be passed even by boats, and therefore the bridge of ropes...offered the only means for the Rajah and his people to effect their retreat'.
	varnashrama-maui.com /paintings.html (3769 words)

	Ganges.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		At the upper part of the Ganges River, electricity is generated at the waterfalls of the Ganges River.
		Transportation-Most of the transportation in India is by river, and the Ganges is the most important of them.
		People are cremated and dumped in the river because they believe that the river will purify them (cremated people are not burned well because they can't afford much kindle).
	schools.4j.lane.edu /spencerbutte/StudentProjects/Rivers/ganges.html (498 words)

	Agra canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Agra canal is an important Indian irrigation work, available also for navigation, in Delhi, Gurgaon, Muttra and Agra districts, and Bharatpur State.
		The canal receives its water from the Jumna River at Okia, about ten miles below Delhi.
		The weir across the Jumna was the first attempted in Upper India upon a foundation of fine sand; it is about 800-yard long, and rises seven-feet above the summer level of the river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agra_canal (132 words)

	Swastika Dam
		Spanning the Colorado River between California and Arizona stand a concrete dam and bridge which are decorated with swastikas.
		The top layers of silt on the river bed were scraped out to a depth of twenty-five feet across the width of the river (nearly a mile) and 400 feet wide.
		Three concrete cores, forty feet high and five feet wide, were poured across the river and a new mixture of earth and rock were dumped between the cores to make up the breast of the dam.
	smoter.com /flooddam/swastika.htm (1513 words)

	Khalistan Calling August 7, 2002
		- to carve a sovereign, democratic, egalitarian Sikh buffer state of KHALISTAN in South Asia, stretching from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West, China on the Northeast and Kashmir on the North.
		For the short term we urge our compatriots living along the Sutlej river to be alert for the man made floods that are bening planned in Delhi, and are on the way.
		, stretching from the Jumna river on the East, to the Pakistan border on the West, to Kashmir on the North and China in the North East
	www.khalistan-affairs.org /main/K_Calling/kc08072002.htm (938 words)

	Landmarks of Heritage
		Taj Mahal, a mausoleum that was built on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, outside Agra in India, by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Begam (also called Mumtaz Mahal, of which the name Taj Mahal is a corruption).
		Figurines of river goddesses adorn the entrance to the Ramesvara cave.
		An imposing square structure with its four minarets piercing the sky, the Charminar is the symbol of this historic city.
	www.spindlepub.com /india/landmarks.htm (2802 words)

	Jumna River History Summary
		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.
		The river's length is 1,384 kilometers, and it is the most important feeder of the Ganges.
		As a result of this loss of water, during the hot season the river itself is reduced to a mere stream above Agra.
	www.bookrags.com /history/worldhistory/jumna-river-ema-03 (258 words)

	Department of Religion \| Virtual Exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The massive and dramatic landscapes of the mountains and river gorges for millennia have inspired religious imagination.
		One of the most revered of places, a place where divine and human life meet is Yamunotri, where the Yamuna (also called Jumna) River emerges from the mountain.
		The river itself is one dimension of her manifestation in the world through which humans have access to her.
	www.religion.emory.edu /exhibitions/yamunotri.html (441 words)

	I savor glimmers of transcendence \| csmonitor.com
		It is a beautiful pavilion, the walls inlaid with jade and other semiprecious stones; and from the latticed windows one sees the waters of the river Jumna winding placidly across the plain.
		In Shah Jehan's time, the river ran much closer to the fort, and I like to think that the emperor, when he found time, strolled along the ramparts of his palace while it was being built.
		It may only be a shaft of sunlight, slanting through the pillars of a banyan tree; or dewdrops caught in a spider's web; or the sudden chatter of a mountain stream as you round the bend of a hill.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/1205/p18s03-hfes.htm (633 words)

	A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi - With An Account Of The Mutiny At Ferozepore In 1857 by Charles John Griffiths eBook ...
		Several heavy guns and mortars were mounted on the walls of the fort, and we noticed one old cannon of immense size for throwing stone balls, but which was cracked at the muzzle, and evidently had not been used for centuries.
		There was a lovely view of the country on the left bank of the Jumna, while to the north and south we followed the windings of the broad river till lost to view in the far distance.
		Thence we skirted along the banks of the river outside the walls, viewing on our way the houses of the European residents, built in charming situations close to the water’s edge.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10856/79.html (557 words)

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