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Yamuna

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Yamuna (yä`mənə) or Jumna (jŭm`nə), river, c.850 mi (1,370 km) long, rising in the Himalayas, N India, and flowing generally SE, through the Shiwalik Range, past Delhi, to the Ganges River at Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh state; the Chambal and Betwa rivers are its main tributaries. The Yamuna's confluence with the Ganges is sacred to Hindus; Allahabad is a major pilgrimage center. Along the Yamuna's banks are many historic monuments, including the Taj Mahal Taj Mahal (täzh məhäl`, täj məhŭl`), mausoleum, Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Yamuna River.
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 at Agra. Formerly an important trade artery, the Yamuna is now the source of irrigation for Uttar Pradesh and Punjab states, and it also suffers from heavy pollution, most especially in the Delhi area. As a result, the river is, except during the monsoon season, severely polluted and greatly reduced in flow below Delhi. The East Yamuna, West Yamuna, and Agra are the major canals on the river.

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It was designed (perhaps by the emperor, in the way that Hadrian is supposed to have designed the Pantheon) as what Koch calls the 'paradisiacal house of the queen', and it was intended to take its place as part of a series of magnificent garden pavilions, now nearly all gone, that fragrantly lined the banks of the Yamuna as it flowed through Agra, then the Mughal capital.
The white fluff coating the surface of the Yamuna River in India is not snow.
In 2000, at the intersection of the Ganges and its tributary the Yamuna, 25 million pilgrims gathered for a Hindu festival.
 
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