Aghanashini River

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| mouth = Laccadive Sea

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The Aghanashini River or Tadadi Hole (also historically called the River Merjee) is a river located in India about 29 km south east of Anjediva Island.{{cite book |last1=Milburn |first1=William |title=Oriental Commerce: Containing a Geographical Description of the Principal Places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, with Their Produce, Manufactures, and Trade |date=1813 |publisher=Black, Parry & Company |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181513 |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.181513/page/n448 314] |quote=Merjee. |language=en}} The village of Aghanashini is to be found at the mouth of the river. The river Aghanashini originates at Shankara Honda in the Sirsi city of Uttara Kannada. The water from this river flows unobstructed through the Western Ghats range and then joins the Laccadive Sea. Karnataka's one of the famous watarfall unchalli waterfalls situated on this river.