Amarja

The Amarja is a river which flows in Kalaburagi District, Karnataka, India. Iit is born at Koralli and flows up to 50–60 kilometres and will merge into bhima river at Sangama Kshetra Ganagapura village in Gulbarga District. Sangam Kshetra is a meeting (Sangama)point of Bhima and Amarja rivers. The water of these rivers, especially at their confluence, called Sangam, are considered extremely holy. Those who bathe in Sangam will be freed from their sins, and their wishes will be fulfilled. There is a temple in Sangam in which Shree Narasimha Saraswati Swamy (The second incarnation of Lord Dattatreya) regularly bathed. .^[1]^[2]

Hydrography of Karnataka

Rivers	Amarga Amarja Arkavathy Bhadra Chakra Chitrvathi Dandavathi Gangavalli Ghataprabha Gurupura Hemavati Honnuhole Kabini Kali Kaveri Kedaka Krishna Kubja Kumaradhara Lakshmana Tirtha Malaprabha Manjira River Netravati Palar Panchagangavalli Papagni Penna Ponnaiyar Shambavi Sharavathi Shimsha Souparnika Tunga Tungabhadra Varada Varahi Vedavathi Vrishabhavathi

Waterfalls	Abbey Barkana Chunchanakatte Devaragundi Godchinamalaki Gokak Hebbe Irupu Jaladurga Jog Kalhatti Kuchikal Magod Mallalli Muthyalamaduvu Sathodi Shivanasamudra or Cauvery Shivganga Unchalli Vajrapoha Varapoha

Lakes	Harangi Hebbal Hesaraghatta Honnamana Kere Krishna Raja Sagara Kukkarahalli Pampa Sarovar Shanti Sagara Thippagondanahalli Vibhutipura

Beaches	Gokarna Murudeshwara Karwar Ankola Kapu Kudle Maravanthe Tannirbhavi Trasi

Dams	Almatti Basava Sagar Bhadra Dam Kadra Kodasalli Krishna Raja Sagara / KRS Linganamakki Mari Kanive Supa

See also	Kerala Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh Maharashtra

References

↑ Vasundhara Bire, Avdhoot Aadkar (March 2015). "भीमा-अमरजा संगमातीरी गुरूदत्त गाणगापुरी" [Bhima-Amarja Sangamatiri Gurudatt Ganagapuri]. Akkalkot Swamidarshan (in Marathi) (Solapur: Satish Kulkarni and Swamikrupa Printing press). |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Om Sadguru Pratisthan (February 1984). ઓમ સદગુરુ પ્રતિષ્ઠાન નિત્ય ઉપાસના [Om Sadguru Pratishthan Nitya Upaasana] (in Gujarati). Borivali, Mumbai: Pallavi Prakashan. |access-date= requires |url= (help)

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