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Vatrak River

river in India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2772817
Source-derived summary

The Vatrak is a tributary of the Sabarmati River which flows for 243 kilometers in Gujarat, India. It originates in the hills of Dungarpur, Rajasthan and enters in Gujarat near village Moydi of Meghraj taluka.

Basin

Vatrak run parallel to the Mahi River, for about 29 km in Rajasthan, before entering the Sabarkantha district near village Moyedi. It runs in the southwest direction of the district, joining Mazum river near the district border with Kheda. Near Untadiya village, Vatrak river meets Zanzari river and the Utkanteshwar Mahadev temple is located on the sangam (lit. 'confluence').

The river joins Shedhi and Meshwo near Kheda and finally drains into Sabarmati at Vautha near Dholka.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vatrak River” is river in India. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vatrak, River and river, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 112-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Vatrak, River and river is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “river in India” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2772817. Authority coordinates are 22.654, 72.543. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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This entry incorporates text from Vatrak River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.