According to legend the goddess of the river is the sister of the Hindu god of death, Yama and daughter of mighty godSurya, the Sungod. The river Yamuna is intimately connected to Lord Krishna's pastimes. The Lord Krishna sanctified the river Yamuna from the beginning of his transcendental pastimes in the world.
A little known fact about the Yamuna is that it is the frontier of the Indian elephant. West of the Yamuna, there are no elephants to be found over 900 [kilometre|km]] of the western Himalayas and their foothills. The forests of the lower Yamuna offer ideal corridors for elephant movement and the principal forests to be found here are of Sal, Khair Sissoo trees and the Shivalik chir- pineforests.
The Eastern Jumna canal runs through the whole length of the district, and supplies the rich tract between the Jumna and the Hindan with a network of distributary streams.
The main branch of the Ganges canal passes across the centre of the plateau in a sweeping curve and waters the midland tract.
From 1707 till 1775 the country was the scene of perpetual strife, and was only rescued from anarchy by the exertions of the military adventurer Walter Reinhardt, afterwards the husband of the celebrated Begum Samru, who established himself at Sardhana in the north, and ruled a large estate.
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