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 | | The crucial symbolic significance of the two rivers, Jamuna and Ganga, to the cosmology of the Hindu epics made the search for substitute rivers a staple of attempts to re-create the sacred geography elsewhere. |
 | | The Rashtrakuta, 8th-9th century rulers of central India, settled their capital in Manyakheta, whose significance seems to have lain in its location between the two great rivers of the Deccan, the Godavari and the Kistna, which justified its claim as a new Hastinapura, capital city of the Mahabharata. |
 | | As late as 1020, Chola king Rajendra I, with his capital in Tanjore in present-day Tamil Nadu, led a military expedition far up the east coast of the Indian subcontinent towards the Ganga, whose water he wished to bring back to create the sacred river anew in his own kingdom. |
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