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in several streams in the district of Midnapore. The Damodar takes its rise in the hills near Bagodar in the district of Hazaribagh and flows through the districts of manbhum and Santhal Paraganas and then through the districts of Burdwan and Hooghly. The Rūpanārāyaṇa, another important tributary of the Bhāgirathi branch of the Ganges, flows through the districts of Bankura, Hooghly is joined on the right side by the united flow of the haldi and Kashai. The Panar which is the first upper tributary of the main stream of the Ganges in Bengal, joins the Ganges below Nawabganj.
The Kamsavati and Purnabhava, are the two tributaries of the Panar in the district of Malda. The Ātrai (Atreyi) and the lesser Yamunā meet together in the district of Rājashāhi. These are also the tributaries of the Panar. At Goalkunda the Ganges receives the greater Yamunā which is nothing but the main steam of the Brahmaputra as it flows through East Bengal. The united stream is now known as Padmā. It joins the estuary of the Meghnā to the east of the Faridpur district. The Garāi issuing from the Gangā above Pānsä in the district of Faridpur flows down under the name of the Madhumats and reaches the Bay a little above Firojpur in the district of Backergunge under the name of the Haringhātā.
The Āriyālkhāl river, which is a distributary of the Ganges, issues from the right side of the Padmā, below the town of Faridpur and flows down into the Bay through the Mandaripur Sub-division of Faridpur and the district of Backergunge. The Āriyālkhāl and the Madhumats are connected by a small river which flows from the former a little above the town of Madaripur and joins the latter a little above Gopalgunge in Madaripur subdivision. The lower course of the Padmā becomes known as the Kārtināśā or destroyer of memorable works from the ravages wrought amongst the monuments and buildings of Rājā Rājavallabha at Rājnagar in the district of Faridpur.
Besides the Bhāgūrathi and Padmā, the water of the Ganges is carried to the sea through numerous other channels. The seaward end of the delta of the Ganges enclose the large swampy area covered with jungles called the Sundaravana. Mention of Sarasvati is understandable only by pun from the sentence where in it has been postulated that in presence of Madirāvatī, the chief consort of Meghavāhana, Sarasvatī (the goddess of speech) (and punningly the river) stood nowhere in point of purity (chastity in case of Madirāvatī) when holding herself extremely turbid (the goddess of speech
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