East Flowing Rivers in India are the rivers that start in west or central India and flow eastwards.
The major east-flowing rivers are the Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, Mahanadi, Penna, Subarnarekha, Brahmani, Ponnaiyar, Vaigai River, etc.
Ponnaiyar River is the South Pennar River that originates in the Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapura district of Karnataka.
It is also known as Dakshina Pinakini in Kannada and Thenpennai in Tamil.
It is one of the east-flowing peninsular rivers in India, like Godavari and Krishna.
Vaigai River is the longest stream south of the Cauvery Delta.
It entirely lies in the state of Tamil Nadu.
It originates in Varusanadu Hills, the Periyar Plateau of the Western Ghats range.
Brahmani River comes into existence by the confluence of the Koel and the Sankh rivers near Rourkela in Odisha.
The basin is bounded in the North by the Chhotanagpur plateau, in the West and South by the Mahanadi basin and in the East by the Bay of Bengal.
Godavari River is the largest peninsular river system in India.
It is held in reverence as ‘Vridha Ganga’ or ‘Dakshina Ganga’.
The river originates from Trimbakeshwar near Nasik in Maharashtra.
Cauvery River (Kaveri) originates at Talakaveri on the Brahmagiri range near Cherangala village of Kodagu (Coorg) district of Karnataka in the Western Ghats.
It is designated as “the Ganga of the South” or ‘Dakshina Ganga’.
It is one of the east-flowing peninsular rivers, like Godavari and Krishna.
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