Jumna

British  

/ ˈdʒʌmnə /

noun

1. a river in N India, rising in Uttarakhand in the Himalayas and flowing south and southeast to join the Ganges just below Allahabad (a confluence held sacred by Hindus). Length: 1385 km (860 miles)

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Example Sentences

Some of his films - Mela, Naya Daur, Ganga Jumna, Devdas and Mughal-e-Azam - were superhits and won him legions of fans.

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2021

All that remained of Lai Bahadur Shastri was a small pile of ashes on the bank of New Delhi's Jumna River.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he drove to the Jumna River to pray at the site where Nehru had been cremated.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it is also holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers�the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground.

From Time Magazine Archive

The case was, however, very different in the adjoining valley of the Jumna and Ganges, the sacred Madhyadesa or Middle-land of classical India.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various