The YAMUNA

     Yamuna, of course, rises at Yamnotri in the Garhwal Himalayas, just a few kilometres to the west of Ganga, and is roughly the same size when it leaves the mountains for the plains. It’s virtually brain-dead at Delhi, because pollution has exhausted virtually all its supply of Dissolved Oxygen.

And then it too miraculously recovers. And it swells in size, much of its new water coming from rivers flowing off the Deccan Plateau to its south, notably the Chambal and the Betwa. By the time it meets Ganga at Allahabad it’s one and a half times as big as Ganga. Yamuna flows through Agra and Vrindavan and gets much of its new water from the south, so with some poetic licence it might be accurate to call it the river of Krishna.