Purna

Purna is a town with a municipal council in Parbhani district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Geography

Purna is located at 19°11′N 77°03′E / 19.18°N 77.05°E / 19.18; 77.05. It has an average elevation of 384 metres (1,260 ft).

Purna is one of eight Talukas in Parbhani District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is a town in the Marathwada region of Maharashtra.

Purna is situated approximately at the centre of Maharashtra. The state capital, Mumbai, lies to the west. The nearest major cities are Aurangabad, Parbhani and Nanded. Purna is 240km from Aurangabad, 42km from Parbhani and just 34km from Nanded. Purna is well connected by rail and road to other major cities in Maharashtra and even in the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh. Purna is an important railway junction on the Mumbai-Purna-Secunderabad lines. Nanded has the nearest airport which is just 40 km from Purna. The other airport nearby is in Aurangabad where domestic as well as some international flights are scheduled on regular basis.

Purna (river)

The Purna River is a river of Western India. It is one of the chief tributaries of Tapti river and empties in it at Changdev in Jalgaon, Maharashtra.

Description

It rises in the eastern Satpura Range of southern Madhya Pradesh state, and flows westward, draining Maharashtra's Marathwada, Vidarbha region before emptying into the Arabian Sea.

The watershed lies mostly in eastern Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state and is nearly 18,929 km².

It originates in Pokharni Village which is 2 km away from Bhainsdehi. Bhainsdehi is a thasil place in Betul district Madhya Pradesh adjoining Amravati district of Maharashtra and flows through Akola, Buldhana, and Jalgaon districts. Total length of Purna River is 334 km.

Name

The word purna means complete in Sanskrit. Purna River was also called as Payoshni or Paisani. It is Sanskrit word meaning ambrosia. There are other rivers too, viz. Khadakpurna, Katepurna, referred to as Purna.

River Basin and Tributaries

Here are the Purna river , with their tributaries

Purna (disambiguation)

Purna usually refers to:

It may also refer to:

See also