What decides the name when two or more rivers meet at the confluence point? Is Ganga really the longest river in India
As a general rule when two or more rivers meet at the confluence point: it is either the volume of water or length of the merging river that decides the name of the new river. However then why we see so many anomalies to this rule especially in ancient civilizations, surely a few can be explained by some old mythological reason, probably a few to some ignorance of those times but certainly not so many. Rivers as part of our geological phenomenon is constantly changing & evolving which means that the rivers are constanty changing their course (both length & direction) and also changes are being brought about in their water flow levels The rivers are many millenia old & their status, names that are given to them are equally that old & hence these names don't change as dynamically & relatively frequently (when compared to the age of the rivers) when the status or position of the rivers change. Nowhere is this more exmplified than in ancient civilizations th...
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