🌊 Rivers · Northern and North-eastern Mountains
Gandak
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Made of two streams, the Kaligandak and the Trishulganga. It rises in the Nepal Himalayas between Dhaulagiri and Mount Everest, enters the plain in Champaran district of Bihar and joins the Ganga at Sonpur near Patna.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
📜 Near here in history
YugMap sites and events within about 20 km of the river as drawn on the map.
- c. 599 BCE Birth of Vardhamana Mahavira
- c. 468 BCE Ajatashatru defeats the Vajji confederacy
- c. 460 BCE Pataliputra becomes Magadha's capital
- c. 383 BCE Second Buddhist Council at Vaishali
- c. 345 BCE Mahapadma Nanda founds the Nanda dynasty
- c. 321 BCE Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nandas
- c. 302 BCE Megasthenes at Pataliputra writes the Indica
- c. 268 BCE Ashoka's accession
- c. 250 BCE Third Buddhist Council at Pataliputra
- c. 232 BCE Death of Ashoka
- c. 185 BCE Pushyamitra Shunga assassinates Brihadratha
- c. 319 CE Gupta era begins
- c. 320 CE Chandragupta I marries the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi
- 499 CE Aryabhata writes the Aryabhatiya
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