Godavari is identified in a geographical note as the modern Godavery. The identification gives the poem’s river geography a point of contact with recognizable geography, though the note itself provides no account of an event taking place on the river.

Geographical Identification

The annotation equates Godavari with the modern Godavery. Nearby river notes distinguish between identifications that are stated confidently and ones left uncertain: Narmada is identified as the modern Nerbudda, while the note on Krishnaveni says its identification is unclear. Godavari’s identification is therefore presented directly, rather than as a conjecture.

Place in the Geographic Notes

Godavari appears as one item in a sequence of river identifications, where the notes relate names in the poem to later geographic names. This helps orient the reader to the poem’s geography, but the annotation supplies no further description of the river’s course, setting, or role in the narrative.