Godavari

Godavari River

The Godavari, which drains by far the larger part of the district, including the tahsils of Kopargaon,Sangamner,Akole,Rahuri, Newasa,Shevgaon the northern half of  Parner and parts of Nagar and Jamkhed ,rises near Trimbak in Nashik on the eastern slope of the Sahyadris. After  passing the town of Nashik it receives the Banganga and the Kadva from the north and Darna from the south and is already a considerable stream,when ,after course of about sixty miles ,it enters north-west corner of the Kopargaon tahsil. It then flows south-east through rich alluvial plain past  Kopargaon to the town  of  Puntamba,which is situated on the Nizam’s frontier ,where it receives from the south  the combined water of Kat and Khara rivers.From Puntamba to a point beyond Paithan,a distance of sixty miles ,the godavari forms almost continuously the boundary between Ahmednagar and the Nizam’s dominions. At the village to Toka it receives on its right bank the combined waters of  the Pravara and the Mula.A few miles below ,the Shiva and Ganda join it from the left and the Dhora from the right. Two miles east of Mungi the river enters the Nizam’s dominions, and hence, flowing across the peninsula ,it empties itself  into the bay of Bangal after the total course of 900 miles.

Godavari River