Jumna

British

/ ˈdʒʌmnə /

noun

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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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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, after his body has been burned on a funeral pyre of bricks and sandalwood sticks, the ashes are scattered on the sacred waters where the Jumna and Ganges meet.

From Time Magazine Archive

All slept peacefully on the banks of the Jumna.

From From Egypt to Japan by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)

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