{"id":365189,"date":"2026-06-15T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=365189"},"modified":"2026-06-15T15:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:12:55","slug":"thamirabarani-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thamirabarani-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Thamirabarani River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Thamirabarani River is home to otters, but their numbers are declining due to habitat loss, raising concerns about the river&#8217;s ecological health.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\"><b>About Thamirabarani River<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Malarvizhi-Ramaswamy\/publication\/352123446\/figure\/fig1\/AS:1030962813079563@1622812097876\/Thamirabarani-River-and-its-sub-basins.ppm\" alt=\"Thamirabarani River and its sub-basins\" width=\"336\" height=\"284\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> perennial river flowing in Tamil Nadu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It originates from the <strong>Agastyarkoodam peak of the Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats, above Papanasam in the Ambasamudram Taluk.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Course of the river:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It<\/span><b> flows through Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts of the Tamil Nadu state of Southern India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> into the<strong> Gulf of Mannar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Length: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is about<\/span><b> 128km long.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Drainage: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with its tributaries, <\/span><b>it drains an area of nearly 4,400 square kilometres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Tributaries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It includes the <\/span><b>Manimuthar, Gadananathi, Pachaiyar, Chittar, Karaiyar, and Servalar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Anicut <\/strong><\/span>situated on the river:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <strong>anicuts <\/strong>constructed on the river are<strong> Kodaimelaalagain anicut, Nathiyunni anicut, Kannadian anicut, Ariyanayagipuram anicut, Palavur anicut, Suthamalli anicut and Marudur anicut.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Associated waterfall:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The river forms waterfalls such as <strong>Paanatheertham Falls near the Karaiyar Reservoir, Kalyanatheertham and Agasthiar Falls near Papanasam.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Historical context:<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sanskrit texts such as the<\/span><b> Mahabharata, Ramayana and various Puranas describe it as a sacred river.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Porunai or Thamirabarani river is mentioned several times in Sangam-era literature.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been mentioned<\/span><b> as Porunai, Than Porunai, Porunal and Poruntham in Tamil literature<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Sangam era.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been referred to as Porunai in Tholkappiam, an ancient treatise on Tamil grammar.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also referred to as <\/span><b>Porunai in the Sangam work Puranaanooru.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Purananooru, Tamil Sangam literature,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> describes the present-day \u2018Thamirabarani\u2019 as \u2018Than Porunai\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Pandyan Kingdom:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During the Early Pandyan period, it <\/span><b>served as a vital centre for pearl fishing, conch collection, agriculture, and maritime commerce, fostering trade connections <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">between southern India and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Korkai, located at the mouth of the river,<\/strong> was an <strong>important Pandyan port<\/strong> famous for its pearl trade.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Thamirabarani River is home to otters, but their numbers are declining due to habitat loss, raising concerns about the river&#8217;s ecological health. About Thamirabarani River It is a perennial river flowing in Tamil Nadu. Origin: It originates from the Agastyarkoodam peak of the Pothigai hills of the Western Ghats, above Papanasam in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/thamirabarani-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thamirabarani River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,12135],"class_list":["post-365189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-etv-bharat","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}