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  Hakra River
The Hakra is the dried-out channel of a river in Pakistan that until about 2000 BC - 1500 BC was the continuation of the Ghaggar River in India.
Many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found along the Ghaggar and Hakra rivers.
The rivers are often identified as the Vedic Saraswati River.
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  Fig. 28. The Hakra Fortress (112 K)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
(112 K) The Hakra Fortress: The various assumptions of the location of the Hakra in Jerusalem.
The reason for the existence of so many different assumptions, is as a result of the researchers claiming that the Temple was located on the Rock of the Golden Dome.
The sources claim that there was a view from the Hakra into the Temple.
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The changes in the courses of two of these rivers, together with the drying up of the Hakra, Wahindah, or Bahindah were so considerable that they reduced a vast extent of once fruitful country to a howl­ ing wilderness, and thus several flourishing cities and towns became ruined or deserted by their inhabitants...
Sutlaj was a tributary of the Hakra or Wahindah...
Lower down on the Hakra the main change was due to the Sutlej having in late prehistoric times abandoned the bed which before had joined the Ghaggar: the resul of a law affecting all rivers whose course lies over alluvial plains...
www.geocities.com /ravi_sans/indus_sarasvati.htm   (8280 words)

  
 Sarasvati River: Ancient courses in Sindh, Rann of Kutch and Gujarat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The tail-end of the Hakra is used presently as the perennial canal of the Sukkur barrage project.
Hakra and Nara were the bed of the mythical Sarasvati which was fed by the Ghaggar and by the source river of the present Sutlej before the old Sutlej lost its hydrographic independence and became a tributary of the Indus.
Hakra and Nara are an earlier course of the Indus, the Indus has migrated to the west and left this course.
www.hindunet.org /saraswati/kach/rannofkutch1.html   (13089 words)

  
 Hakra River - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Ghaggar/Hakra rivers are often identified by Hindu Nationalists as the Vedic Saraswati River.
The location, and even the historicity and existence of the Saraswati is disputed.
Hakra River, The Saraswati dispute, External links and See also.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hakra_River   (195 words)

  
 Art Fresh : Article 'Hakra River'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Saraswati dispute The Ghaggar/Hakra rivers are often identified by Hindu Nationalists as the Vedic Saraswati River.
The rivers are often identified by Hindu Nationalists as the Vedic Saraswati River.
The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area, along which many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found.
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Hakra) which is occasionally referred to as parisaraka, parisrAvatI (VAdhB 4.75), parINah (PB 25.13.1) 'the area surrounded (by the sarasvatI)' (Witzel 1984), a wording that clearly indicates delta-like configurations (playa), with terminal lake(s) (samudra).
In the dry bed of the Hakra many potsherds (kapAla) used in ritual could be found (PB 25.10); they belonged to the given up settlements (arma, armaka, Falk 1981) of the late Harappan and post-Harappan period (cf.
Mughal proposes that the Hakra was a perennial river in the 4th and early 3rd millennium BCE and that it had dried up about the end of the second.[N.205] Other dates range from 2500-2200 BCE to 2200-1700 BCE, and Francfort (1985 sqq.) thinks of a much earlier period.
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 The Indus and the Saraswati   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
To begin with, the Sarasvati is identified with the Ghaggar or the Hakra.
The river is called the Ghaggar in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, and the Hakra beyond the Indian border in Pakistan.
The Hakra of the Ghaggar basin is only one of several areas which show the earliest elements of the Harappan culture.
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 IMAGINING RIVER SARASVATI
This, of course, means that the Hakra’s "mouth" lay near Derawar, and the river, when it contained water, had its point of termination here.
The Hakra and the lower beds of the Chautang and Ghaghar have been dry for centuries.
The connexion of the Hakra, presumed with an old bed of "Satlej" on map 49.4(p.495), is based not on Landsat imagery but an unfounded reading of the toposheets.
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However in the late Harappan period the number of late Harappan sites in the middle Hakra channel and in the Indus valley diminishes, while it expands in the upper Ghaggar-Sutlej channels and in Saurashtra.
Because most of the Indus Valley sites are actually located on the Hakra-Ghaggar river and its tributaries and not on the Indus river, some archaeologists have proposed to use the term "Indus Sarasvati Civilization" to refer to the Harappan culture.
The dried out Hakra river bed is between three and ten kilometers wide.
www.4dham.com /go2/Vedic_Sarasvati_River.html   (1941 words)

  
 Sindh Kutch Relations
The Hakra or Sarswati, the lost river of the Indian desert was fed by Ghaggar, Chitang and Sarswati itself, all of which originated in Swalik ranges about 200-300 miles north of Delhi.
The combined waters from all these sources were flowing into the Hakra or the Sarsuti River.
By about 1226 AD, Hakra dried up, the Indus west-warded and it was no longer discharging through the Koree Creek into the Creek of Kutch.
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The changes in the courses of two of these rivers, together with the drying up of the Hakra, Wahindah, or Bahindah were so considerable that they reduced a vast extent of once fruitful country to a howling wilderness, and thus several flourishing cities and towns became ruined or deserted by their inhabitants...
Tod calls it the `Sankra', which is another form of the name; and it is called Sankrah in the treaty entered into by Nadir Shah, and Muhammad Shah, Badshah of Dihli, when ceding all the territory west of it to the Persians...
After entering Sind the Hakra turns southward, and becomes continuous with the old river-bed generally known as Narra.
sanskrit.gde.to /all_txt/sarasvati.txt   (8134 words)

  
 Destruction of Protected Archiological Sites in Sindh
Accepting Raverty’s findings Dr. Daudpotta thought that Janani a beautiful town of Soomras visited by Ibn Battutta was near Sann and Dr. N.A. Baloch considered it on a channel of the Indus leading to Eastern Nara in Sanghar and Mirpurkhas districts.
I have used contour maps of Sindh to find depressions of the old courses of the Indus, Hakra and their branches and also arial photographs and have located Janani about two kms west of Warah town, with a village, Deh and an Inspection Bungalow of the same name called Junnanni.
“Hakra or Sarsuti controversy, various versions of Scientists, Historians are Folk Iorists” in Jour.
www.panhwar.com /Article134.htm   (1525 words)

  
 Hakra River - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hakra River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Hakra River - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Hakra River.
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The orginal Hakra River article can be editet
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