Indian Rivers and Waterways

The river Kosi is known as the 'Sorrow of Bihar' as it flows from Nepal to India and has caused widespread human suffering in the past through flooding and very frequent changes in course. It is river Damodar which is often labelled as the ‘Sorrow of Bengal’. Over the last 250 years, the river Kosi has shifted its course over 120 km (75 miles) from East to West. Its unstable nature has been attributed to the heavy silt it carries during the monsoon season which causes flooding in India that has extreme effects. 

The Vedic Civilization flourished along the river Saraswati, in a region that now consists of the modern Indian states of Haryana and Punjab.

The battle took place on the banks of the Parusni (Ravi).

Correct answer is 3. 

With the Cholas in obscurity, the Tamil country was divided between the Pallavas and the Pandyas, with river Kaveri being the frontier between them.

This option is wrong as Gomti is a tributry of river Ganga and ultimately meets the Ganga river, which mixes with the Indian Ocean.

Ganga is the perennial river of India. It never dries up.

The Brahmaputra is called the 'red river' of India.The legend says that the river washed off the blood-stained axe of Parashuram and hence its water acquired a tinge of blood; that is how its name became Lauhitya or Luit in the derived form. Another reason for the red tinge of water especially in the upper reaches is due to the carrying of reddish soil by the river.

Narmada and Tapti rivers do not form Deltas because they have a short mountain stage and flow on a rugged and rocky slope.

The Satluj, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum join together to enter the Indus near Mithankot in Pakistan.

Ambala is located on the water divide between the Indus and the Ganga river systems. The plains from Ambala to the Sunderban stretch over nearly 1800 km, but the fall in its slope is hardly 300 metres.

The Godavari is joined by a number of tributaries such as the Purna, the Wardha, the Pranhita, the Manjra, the Wainganga, and the Penganga.

Narmada creates many picturesque locations. The ‘Marble rocks’, near Jabalpur where the Narmada flows through a deep gorge and the ‘Dhuadhar falls’ where the river plunges over steep rocks, are some of the notable ones.

A river joined by its tributaries, at approximately right angles, develops a trellis pattern. A trellis drainage pattern develops where hard and soft rocks exist parallel to each other.

Krishna is southern Indian ephemeral river having five tributaries Tungabhadra, Koyana, Ghatprabha, Musi and Bhima