{"id":24720,"date":"2025-04-06T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24720"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:12:47","slug":"saryu-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/saryu-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Saryu River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Saryu River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Devotees in large numbers continue to take holy dip in the Saryu River as they arrive at Ram temple in Ayodhya, on the occasion of Ram Navami.<\/p>\n<h2>About Saryu River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river that flows through the Indian states of <strong>Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also known as the <strong>Sarayu or Sarju River.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This river is of ancient significance, finding <strong>mentions in the Vedas and the Ramayana.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Course<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It <strong>rises at Sarmul<\/strong> (or Sarmool), which is located in the extreme north of the district Bageshwar of <strong>Uttarakhand <\/strong>on the <strong>southern slope of a ridge of the Nanda Kot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It flows through the <strong>Kumaon Himalayas, <\/strong>and passes by the towns of Kapkot, Bageshwar, and Seraghat before <strong>flowing into the Sharada River <\/strong>at Pancheshwar <strong>at the India-Nepal border.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sharada River<\/strong> (also <strong>known as the Kali River)<\/strong> then <strong>flows into the Ghaghara River i<\/strong>n Sitapur District<strong>, Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lower Ghaghara is popularly known as Sarayu <\/strong>in India, especially while it flows through the city of Ayodhya.<\/li>\n<li>Length: Approximately 350\u2013400 kilometers long.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ayodhya<\/strong>, the birthplace of Lord Rama, is situated <strong>on the banks of the river Sarayu.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Saryu River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which major place lies on the banks of the Saryu River?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ayodhya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Through which Indian states does the Saryu River flow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Where does the Saryu River originate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Sarmul in Bageshwar, Uttarakhand<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/devotees-in-large-numbers-take-holy-dip-in-the-saryu-river-on-ram-navami-922906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saryu River flows through the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24720","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\/24720","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=24720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}