The traditional source of the river is a spout from the mouth of a statue of a cow in the ancient temple of Mahadev[?] in Mahabaleshwar[?], Maharashtra.
It most important tributary is the Tungabhadra River[?], which itself is formed by the Tunga[?] and Bhadra[?] rivers that originate in the Western Ghats. Other tributaries include the Koyna[?], Bhima[?], Mallaprabha[?], Ghataprabha[?], Yerla[?], Warna[?], Dindi[?], Musi[?] and Dudhganga[?] rivers.
Two big dams have been constructed on the river, one at Srisailam[?] and the other at Nagarjuna Hill. The latter called Nagarjuna Sagar[?] is considered to be the largest earth dam in the world with a natural reservoir spanning several thousand hectares of land.
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