Krishna River
— — a river the south plans its year around.
Not only on a wall.
“One of the great rivers of peninsular India. The Krishna rises at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats, where a small stone spout in an old temple marks the source, then runs east across the Deccan Plateau for some 1,400 kilometres through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh before opening into a wide delta on the Bay of Bengal. Vijayawada, Amaravati, and the old shrine town of Srisailam all sit on its banks. The dry-season blue, the monsoon brown, the deep green where the Tungabhadra joins it — the river changes colour as the country changes around it. from the studio
Krishna River, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
The Krishna is one of the longest rivers of peninsular India, running roughly 1,400 kilometres from its source at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra to its delta on the Bay of Bengal in Andhra Pradesh. Its source sits at about 1,337 metres above sea level near the old temple town of Mahabaleshwar, where a small stone spout in the Old Mahabaleshwar shrine marks the head of the river. The Krishna crosses four states — Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh — and drains a basin of about 258,000 square kilometres, the fourth-largest river basin in India.
Major tributaries join the Krishna along its course: the Bhima from the north, the Tungabhadra from the south near Alampur, the Musi past Hyderabad, and the Koyna in the upper reaches. Large dams shape the modern river — the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in Telangana, completed in 1967, was for years one of the tallest masonry dams in the world, and the Srisailam Dam carries a major hydroelectric project. The dry-season flow runs blue and slow; the monsoon turns the river brown and full from June through September. The delta opens at Hamsaladeevi where the river meets the Bay of Bengal.
The Krishna is a sacred river in Hindu tradition, named for the deity Krishna, and several of the country's important pilgrimage sites sit on its banks. Srisailam, in the forested Nallamala Hills, is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Shiva and a Shakti Pitha for the goddess. Mahabaleshwar at the source draws pilgrims year-round. Vijayawada and the new Andhra capital of Amaravati look across the river to each other. The Krishna Pushkaram, a twelve-yearly bathing festival, draws millions of pilgrims to the riverbanks for twelve days. The next observance falls in 2028.