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On
the right of the picture is a very old Kadambha tree, whose lower limbs
extend out over the dry bed of the Yamuna river. It is said that this
is the very same tree (or at least a direct descendant of the tree)
from which Krishna leapt into the waters of the Yamuna to do battle
with the great serpent Kaliya, whose presence in the river spread poison
and deadly fumes all around. Krishna drove out Kaliya, but that was
5,000 years ago and now the Yamuna is polluted again, this time by the
factories and sewage of modern India.
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