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The Narmada Human, originally the Narmada Man, is a species of extinct human that lived in central India during the Middle and Late Pleistocene. [1] [2] From a skull cup discovered from the bank of the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh in 1982, the discoverer, Arun Sonakia classified it was an archaic human and gave the name Narmada Man, with the scientific name H. erectus narmadensis. [3]
Although not regarded as an anatomically modern Homo sapiens, a skull from the Central Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh, India, referred to as Narmada Man, is the first authenticated discovery of a late Middle Pleistocene (around 200,000 BP) hominid from South Asia. [11]
Most of the rivers are represented in female form, [1] with the notable exception of Brahmaputra, which is considered to be male. [2] The most significant rivers in the faith are the Saptanadi and which includes the Ganges, Yamuna, Sindhu, Narmada, Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri. [3]
The Narmada and Tapti rivers originate from the Vindhya and Satpura ranges in Central India. [4] In the peninsular India, majority of the rivers originate from the Western Ghats and flow towards the Bay of Bengal, while only a few rivers flow from east to west from the Eastern Ghats to the Arabian sea.
Makara appears as the vahana (vehicle) of the river goddess Ganga, Narmada, and of the god of the ocean, Varuna. [2] Makara are considered guardians of gateways and thresholds, protecting throne rooms as well as entryways to temples; it is the most commonly recurring creature in Hindu and Buddhist temple iconography , and also frequently ...
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Narmada mata temple and Ganesh temple are also present in the temple vicinity. [4] [5] [6] Sun temple: It is a roofless unfinished temple located little north of Siddheshwar temple, which is the only Vaishnava temple hitherto known of the stellate class of the bhumija style. [4] Nabhi Kund: Nemawar is the Nabhi sthan (Navel) of Narmada river.
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