Question

The major river of Tamil Nadu is _____.
(A) Kaveri
(B) Madurai
(C) Karur
(D) Thiruvarur

Answer 1

Hint:
 In Tamil Nadu primary sources of irrigation are rivers. So many rivers in Tamil Nadu flowing in the direction of East and further these are merges at the Bay of Bengal. Through the North-East monsoon, Tamil Nadu receives 48% of rain and 32% of rain from the South-West monsoon.

Complete solution:
 There are some prominent rivers of Tamil Nadu is- Bhavani, Kaveri, Noyil, and Cheyyar, Palar, etc. The major river of Tamil Nadu is Kaveri here. The primary source of the Kaveri River is Talakaveri in Karnataka. Its length is 760 km. The extension of the Kaveri River is in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The main tributaries are- Bhavani, Noyil, Amaravati, and Kollam. Kaveri is one of India’s most sacred rivers. Kaveri can also spell as “Cauvery”. Kaveri is also called “the Dakshina Ganga” or “Ganga of the South”. There are so many versions of its mythology about its incarnation on the Earth. The most famous story one of them is that a king whose name was Kaveri. King Kavera was lived in the Brahmagiri hills. He always prayed to God Brahma for a descendant. After some time a daughter was born in the house of King Kaveri. He named it Kaveri. Kavery was the water demonstration of the human form. The very great sage Agastya was her husband, he has contained her in his ‘Kamandal’. Once a drought encircled the Earth, Lord Ganesha in the form of a crow, tipped the Kamandal and out flowed Kaveri.


Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
 Kaveri has its origin in Talakaveri at the height of 1,341 meters, in the Coorg district of Karnataka. “Krishnaraj Sagar” is the first dam which is built on the Kaveri River at 19 km from Mysore where it meets with Hemawati and Lakshmantirth rivers. Kaveri forms the border of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.