CHUMBUL, a tributary to the Jumna. It rises in Malwa in lat. 22° 26', and long. 75° 45', 8 or 9 miles S.W. front Mhow, which is 2019 feet above the sea. It rises on the cluster called Janapava. Itruns north 105 miles, N.1V. 6 miles, S.E. 10 miles, N.E. 23 miles, S.1V. 25 miles, north to junction with Kalee Sind, N.E. 145 miles, S.E. 78 miles to Jumna ; length, 570 miles ; described in a form nearly semicircular, the diameter being only 30 miles. It receives the Chumbela, 70 ; Seepra, 120 ; Parbati, 220 ; Kalee Sind, 225 ; Banas, 320 ; Chota Kalee Sind, 104 miles. About 56,000 square miles drained. The average declivity of its bed, 2 feet 5 inches per mile. Its average volume of water is so considerable, that at its junction it has been known to raise the united stream 7 or 8 feet in twelve hours. The nominal source of the Chum bul is in a part of the Irindhya range, 9 miles S.W. of Mhow ; but this part of the river is dry in the hot season, during which it owes its waters to other tributary streams. The current is in most parts
gentle, its bed rocky, and its course through Mal wa much obstructed by shallows ; but, after entering Harrowtee by an opening 'tithe Mokundra range, it becomes a fine and deep stream. The course of the Chumbul, not reckoning the minor sinuosities, is upwards of 500 miles; and along ita banks nearly every race now existing in N.1V. India may be found, —Sondi, Chunderawut, Sesodia, lam, Gore, Jadoon, Sikerwal, Goojur, Jat, Tuar, Chohan, Bliadoria, Kutchwaha, Sengar, Boondela, each in associations of various magnitudes, from the substantive state to the little republic communes between the Chumbul and Cohari. The Chumbul runs through the territories of Sinai and Holkar, viz. Gwalior and Indore, and pa.sses near Kotah.— Ties Rajasthan, p. 16 ; Rep. Royal Cont.