Oxus corresponds to the Sanskrit name Vaksu
He also suggests that in the post-Vedic and Puranic tradition the "disappearance" of Sarasvati, which to refers to "[going] under [the] ground in the sands", was created as a complementary myth to explain the visible non-existence of the river. comprises not only the Sarasvati, Drishadvati and Apaya but many lakes
Therefore rivers to east of Ganga cannot be Rigvedic rivers. The same text (25.10.11-16) records that the Sarasvati is 'so to say meandering' (kubjimati) as it could not sustain heaven which it had propped up. The dried-up, seasonal Ghaggar River in Rajasthan and Haryana reflects the same geographical view described in the Mahabharata. The
past as well. 1991). In the younger Avesta, Haraxvatī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati, which gave its name to the present-day Hārūt River in Afghanistan, may have referred to the entire Helmand drainage basin (the center of Arachosia). There are a number of reasons why this cannot be so. The Evidence from Old Indian and Iranian Texts", Is River Ghaggar, Saraswati? Near Suratgarh the Ghaggar is then joined by the dried up Drishadvati river. hand the later Vedic texts contain descriptions that are inconsistent with
This despite Allahabad being a considerable distance from the possible historic routes of an actual Sarasvati river. 6.61.12), Sarasvati being the seventh (Rv 7.36.6). Ajit Singh et al. The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage and as the Hakra downstream of the barrage. The water is expected to fill the channel until Kurukshetra, a distance of 40 kilometres. (2019) identify the Sarasvati with the Ghaggar, arguing that during "9-4.5 ka the river was perennial and was receiving sediments from the Higher and Lesser Himalayas," which "likely facilitated development of the early Harappan settlements along its banks. Two intermittent streams, Kushk-e-Nakhud and Garm Ab,
The distance between the source and the Vinasana (place of disappearance of the river) is said to be 44 Ashwin (between several hundred and 1,600 miles) (Tandya Br. Rv (6.61.1) talks of a people, Paravatas, slain by Sarasvati. Another verse (Rv 8.54.4) speaks of Sarasvati and
"[23], Danino acknowledges that this asks for "studying its tentacular ramifications into linguistics, archaeoastronomy, anthropology and genetics, besides a few other fields". the sea, some 1400 km away and the Ghaggar loses its way in the Thar
appearing on its banks. [15], Ajit Singh et al. literature which though linguistically younger, seems to contain material
This assumption does not appear to be valid. Yamuna. The Satluj is mentioned in the
The Hakra river is hydraulically connected to the Nara River provided it has adequate fl Rigvedic people did not know the present-day Gomati, it is even less
Keith (1879–1944) also didn't subscribe to this theory and stated that there is no conclusive evidence to identify the Sarasvati with the Helmand river. London. The river Ghaggar is also important
Koramangala,
An archaeological tour along the Ghaggar-Hakra River by Aurel Stein, This page was last edited on 7 November 2020, at 16:20.