{"id":21595,"date":"2024-03-17T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21595"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:47:45","slug":"shipra-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shipra-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Shipra River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Shipra River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Shipra, also known as the\u00a0Kshipra, is a\u00a0river in Madhya Pradesh state.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0perennial river and is\u00a0considered as sacred\u00a0as the Ganga River by the Hindus.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Course:\n<ul>\n<li>Origin: It originates in the\u00a0Vindhya Range from a\u00a0hill called Kakri-Tekdi, which is in the north of Dhar and situated at a distance of 11km from Ujjain.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This river is\u00a0195km long, out of which\u00a093km flow through Ujjain.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0flows across the Malwa Plateau to\u00a0join the Chambal River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Religious Significance:\n<ul>\n<li>The Puranas, or ancient\u00a0Hindu texts, put forward that the\u00a0Shipra originated from the\u00a0heart of Varaha, Lord\u00a0Vishnu\u2019s incarnation as a boar.<\/li>\n<li>Also\u00a0on the banks of the Shipra\u00a0is Sage Sandipani\u2019s ashram or hermitage,\u00a0where Krishna, Lord Vishnu\u2019s eighth incarnation,\u00a0had studied.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0finds mention not only in ancient Hindu texts but\u00a0also in Buddhist and Jain scriptures.<\/li>\n<li>The holy city of\u00a0Ujjain is located on the right bank of the Shipra River. The famous\u00a0Kumbha Mela takes place\u00a0in the\u00a0ghats of this city, once every 12 years, a yearly celebration of the river goddess Kshipra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Major Tributaries: Khan and Gambhir<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Which are the major tributaries of the Chambal River?<\/h3>\n<p>The tributaries of the Chambal include KShipra, Choti Kalisindh, Sivanna, Retam, Ansar, Kalisindh, Banas, Parbati, Seep, Kuwari, Kuno, Alnia, Mej, Chakan, Parwati, Chamla, Gambhir, Lakhunder, Khan, Bangeri, Kedel and Teelar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/xplore\/2024\/Mar\/16\/cag-alert-on-unacceptable-pollution-ofkshipra-river-in-madhya-pradesh-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CAG alert on unacceptable pollution of Kshipra river in Madhya Pradesh<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shipra, also known as the Kshipra, is a river in Madhya Pradesh state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}