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{{distinguish|Tons River}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}
{{short description|River in India}}
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The '''Tamsa River''' (also called as Tons river) is a tributary of the [[Ganges]] flowing through the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|states]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]].

==Course==
The Tamsa rises in a tank at Tamakund in the [[Kaimur Range]] at an elevation of {{convert|610|m}}. It flows through the fertile districts of [[Satna district|Satna]] and [[Rewa district|Rewa]]. At the edge of the Purwa plateau, the Tamsa and its tributaries form many waterfalls. The river receives the Belan in UP and joins the Ganges at Sirsa, about {{convert|311|km}} downstream of the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna. The total length of the river is {{convert|264|km}}. It has a total drainage area of {{convert|16860|km2}}.<ref>{{Cite book|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=Zj9Pbd0-eesC&q=Purwa+Falls+Rewa+Tourism&pg=PA71 | title = India's Water Wealth | work= p. 71, The Tons | last= K.L.Rao | year = 1979 | isbn = 9788125007043 | access-date = 2010-07-10 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=_ce8FpJzR-4C&q=Tamsa+River+Tons&pg=PA24 | title =Uttar Pradesh General Knowledge | work= p. 24 | last= Upkar Prakashan Editorial Board | date =17 January 2015 | isbn =9788174824080 | access-date = 2010-07-10 }}</ref>

The Tamsa River while descending through the [[Rewa Plateau]] and draining northwards makes a vertical fall of 70m known as [[Purwa Falls]].<ref>{{Cite book|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=T1Y_Ytx9wp4C&q=Physical+Geography:+Hydrosphere+By+K.+Bharatdwaj+Purwa&pg=PA161 | title = Physical Geography: Hydrosphere| work= p. 161 | last=K. Bharatdwaj | year = 2006| isbn = 9788183561679| access-date = 2010-07-10 }}</ref> Some of the more notable waterfalls on the tributaries of the ''Tamsa'' river, as they come down from the Rewa Plateau, are: [[Chachai Falls]] (127m) on the Beehar River, a tributary of the Tamsa, the [[Keoti Falls]] (98m) on the Mahana River, a tributary of the Tamsa, and [[Bahuti Falls|Odda Falls]] (145m) on the Odda River, a tributary of the Belah River, which is itself a tributary of the Tamsa,<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=T1Y_Ytx9wp4C&q=Physical+Geography:+Hydrosphere+Devdari+Falls&pg=PA154 | title = Physical Geography: Hydrosphere| work= p. 154 | last= K. Bharatdwaj | year = 2006| isbn = 9788183561679| access-date = 2010-07-11 }}</ref>
Actually, the Tamsa River described in Valmiki Ramayana is a seasonal rivulet, originates somewhere in Barabanki, and flows through the Ayodhya district to Darban lake in Tanda tehsil in Ambedkar Nagar.
This river is left side of Ganga and Gomti. Thus has no relation to Reva or Madhya Pradesh.

== Significance ==
This river has also got importance in Hinduism. As this is the river on which [[Shri Rama]] spent his first night during the 14 years of forest exile. When Shri Rama left Ayodhya people followed him and were not ready to return to their homes. In the evening [[Shri Rama]], [[Lakshmana]] and [[Sita]] and all the people reached the banks of the Tamsa. Shri Rama and everyone agreed to spend the night at the banks of the Tamsa river and continue the journey next morning. Shri Rama left people sleeping and continued the journey further.)<ref>{{cite web| url=http://ramayan.agoodplace4all.com/ayodhyakand10.php| title=At the banks of the Tamsa River| publisher=The Story of Valmiki Ramayan| access-date=2010-07-10| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817004035/http://ramayan.agoodplace4all.com/ayodhyakand10.php| archive-date=17 August 2010| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The [[Ashram]]a of sage [[Valmiki]] was at the banks of Tamsa river.<ref>{{cite book|title= Historic Rama of Valmiki|author=Vishvanath Limaye|publisher=Gyan Ganga Prakashan|year=1984}}</ref> When Mata Sita was exiled by Shri Rama, she left Ayodhya and came to the banks of Tamsa river some 15  km away from the city, where she met Valmiki. He requested Sita to live in his ashrama situated at the bank of the Tamsa river. Here Sita spent all her remaining life, and here her twin sons [[Lava (Ramayana)|Lava]] and [[Kusha (Ramayana)|Kusha]] received education and trained in [[military]] skills under the tutelage of Valmiki.<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Ancient India: From 7300 BC to 4250 BC (Volume 1)|last= Mittal |first=J.P.|year=2006|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distributors|isbn=81-269-0615-4 |page=368 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7gOBW8oDFgC&q=Tamsa+River&pg=PA368 }}</ref>

Also on the banks of river Tamsa was the ashram of [[Bharadwaj]], mentioned in the Valmiki Ramayana; it is here that on seeing the plight a bird couple, [[Valmiki]] created his first verse, ''[[shloka]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Epic scenes in Indian plastic art |last=Kala |first=Jayantika |year=1988|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=81-7017-228-4 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLcGKezqdDIC&q=Tamsa+River&pg=PA7 }}</ref>

==Towns And villages situated on Tamsa River==
*[[Teonthar]]
*[[Pathrahta]]
*[[Cheruia ]]
*[[Pipraon]]
*[[Malpar]]
*[[Chakghat]]
*[[Meja]]
*[[Maihar]]
*[[Azamgarh]]<ref>[https://azamgarh.nic.in/ Azamgarh District Website]</ref>
* AMBEDKAR NAGAR * Maunath Bhanjan(MAU)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Tamsa River}}
* [http://wikimapia.org/3623749/hi/TAMSA-RIVER Tamas River wikimapia]

{{Hydrography of Madhya Pradesh}}
{{Hydrography of Uttar Pradesh}}

[[Category:Rivers of Madhya Pradesh]]
[[Category:Rivers of Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Tributaries of the Ganges]]
[[Category:Ancient Indian rivers]]
[[Category:Ganges basin]]
[[Category:Rivers of India]]

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