Tapti River

Course of the Tapti

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The Tapti or Tapi (Hindi: ताप्ती, Tapti, Marathi: तापी, TAPI) is a river in central India, the south-east of Betul in Madhya Pradesh rises in the eastern Satpura range and flows westward, partly parallel to the Narmada. They drained the Kandesh region in Maharashtra and flows by about 720 km, of which 300 km are navigable, at Surat, Gujarat, in the Gulf of Khambhat. The catchment area comprises approximately 77,800 km ².

In Indian mythology, Tapati, the river goddess of the Tapti, a daughter of the sun god Vivasvat and his second wife Chhaya.

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