The river Narmada originates at

The Narmada rises at Amarkantak in the Maikal range of Madhya Pradesh and flows westwards through a rift valley between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges to the Arabian Sea in the Gulf of Khambhat. The Godavari rises near Nasik at Trimbakeshwar in the Brahmagiri hills, and the Krishna rises at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats, so those places are the other rivers' sources.