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This river changes its course from year to year and its old beds are found all over the north of Madhubani subdivision. The main channel used to flow ten miles east of Madhubani, then ten miles west and now it flows 2 miles east of Madhubani town and reaching Ryam encircling it by various channels takes ultimately the bed of Gause river and then goes south eastward to Tilkeshwar. It is a large river in the rains and is liable to heavy floods....... In flood season Madhubani and Jaynagar towns are threatened every year and the Ryam area becomes a vast sheet of water. A few years before, Kamla used to flow into the bed of Jiwachh, which it has abandoned now and has taken up the present course as stated above.
The bed of Jiwachh has thus silted up........ In Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur, Kamla is worshipped as the younger sister of the Ganga and receives similar offerings of goats. Still further east of Kamla is the Little Balan, a deep narrow river with well defined beds, which runs south through the eastern part of Khajauli and Madhubani thanas and joins Tiljuga near Rusera. The Balan proper known as Bhali Balan is a river with wide shifting of sandy beds, also liable to heavy floods, but practically dry during a great part of the year. Its old beds are found all over the north of Phulparas thana........... Last comes Tiljuga and Kosi. Tiljuga rises in Nepal and skirts the entire eastern part of the district, though parts of it lie in Saharsa and Monghyr districts.
To be continued.....