 A place of religious importance and the site for historic Kumbh Mela held every 12 years, over the years it has also been the site of immersion of ashes of several national leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi in 1948.The auspiciousness of the confluence of two rivers is referred to in the Rigveda, which says,"Those who bathe at the place where the two rivers flow together, rise up to heaven"

The Triveni Sangam in Erode is a confluence of 3 rivers, the Cauvery, Bhavani and Amudha.It is also called as South Indian Triveni Sangam.