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	Saraswati - Ancient holy river of Haryana - Kunal - Ghaggar - Vedic - India
		Saraswati River is believed to have drained the north and northwest region of India, including Haryana and Punjab, in ancient times, supporting a large number of settlements.
		There are numerous references to the river Saraswati in the ancient Indian literature of the Vedic and post-Vedic period.
		River Sutluj, the Vedic Shatadru, joined the river Saraswati as a tributary at Shatrana, approximately 25 km south of Patiala.
	haryana-online.com /saraswati.htm (460 words)

	Saraswati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The location of the river that once bore her name cannot be verified, but along the banks of the river that is believed to have been the one, the earliest writing in India has been found.
		Saraswati Stuthi tells us that she is the only goddess to be revered by all the three great gods of Hinduism, Brahma and Vishnu and Shiva.
		She is the only goddess to be worshipped equally by all the gods, the demons, the gandharvas (the divine musicians) and the nagas (the divine serpents).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saraswati (926 words)

	MANTRA ON NET: Saraswati- Text & Images
		Saraswati as the embodiment of the Saraswati River is significant in both a historical and a theological sense.
		Saraswati is also often said to have her origin in and to reside in the mouths or on the tongues of the god Brahma (Brahma has four or five heads) That is, when Brahma undertakes the creation of the world through creative speech, the goddess Saraswati is born in his mouths.
		Saraswati's iconography illustrates her associations with culture, particularly the arts and sciences, and shows her to be a goddess who is for the most part set apart from the natural realm of growth, fertility, blood, and other phenomena often associated with or central in the iconography and mythology of other goddesses.
	www.mantraonnet.com /saraswati2.html (3237 words)

	Sarasvati River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		And some Rig-vedic verses (6.61.2) indicate that the Sarasvati river originated in the high Himalayas like the ancient "Sarasvati-Sutlej" river where she could "burst with her strong waves the ridges of the hills", and not merely in the Himalayan foothills like the present-day Sarasvati-Ghaggar river.
		A river flowing into an aggrading flood plain tends to gradually build up with silt the land round its course, until at the next big flood the river finds it easier to flow into lower land further away from its old course.
		The goddess Sarasvati was originally a personification of this river, and later developed an identity and meaning independently from the river.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saraswati_River (1542 words)

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		The river course was dotted with lakes and ponds.
		Thus, due to river capture, Saraswati was deprived of the perennial source of molten glaciers from the Himalayas.
		Because Yamuna brought the waters of Saraswati to Ganga, the Sagam is called as the Triveni Sangam of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati.
	www.gsbkerala.com /saraswatih.htm (784 words)

	Vedic Saraswati River
		The river has been identified with various present-day or historical rivers, particularly the Ghaggar-Hakra river in India and Pakistan.
		The situation is further complicated by the fact that the heavenly 'river' of the milky way[?] seems sometimes to be referred to, and by the fact that the river is personifid as a goddess.
		Recent finding suggest the Ghaggar river did once flow in great strength, and was of major importance to the Indus Valley civilization, but that it dried up due to the redirection of its tributaries.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ve/Vedic_Saraswati_River.html (245 words)

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	Lakshmi and Saraswati - Tales in Mythology and Art
		Saraswati is one of the few important goddesses in the Vedas who have retained their significance to the present day.
		Conception of Goddess Saraswati as a flowing blood river is open to interpretation as a symbol of the menstrual blood flow in women, particularly since Saraswati is conceived of as an ever-flowing stream which purifies and “fertilizes” the Earth.
		As Saraswati, the goddess, her identity is not as nebulous as Vak (speech).
	www.hindupaintings.com /article/lakshmiandsaraswati/2 (2963 words)

	Recent Research on the Sarasvati River
		As for the river whose origins are sought to be found at Adi Badri, Darshan Jain conceded that all that remained was a trickle from one of the rock formations.
		Bisht contends that the territory of the Rig Vedic Aryans was coterminous with that of the Harappans.
		The Nadi Sukta or the river hymn, although a late composition compared to the Rig Veda, enumerated a large number of rivers that ran from the east to the west.
	www.stephen-knapp.com /recent_research_on_the_sarasvati_river.htm (4855 words)

	Indian Mythology - Hindu Mythology Articles, Facts @ Indian Divinity.com >> SARASWATI
		In the Vedas Saraswati is primarily a river but in the hymns she is celebrated both as a river and a deity.
		As a river Saraswati is lauded for the fertilizing and purifying powers of her waters and as the giver of fertility and wealth.
		Muir attempts to explain the acquisition of this character by Saraswati in these words, "When once the river Saraswati had acquired the divine character, it was but natural that this river should be regarded as the protector and patron of the rituals and ceremonies accompanied by hymns performed at her banks.
	www.webonautics.com /mythology/saraswati.html (410 words)

	indiayogi.com - Indian Gods and Goddesses - Saraswati - Wisdom as a Goddess - Saraswati,Rudra-Shiva,Rudra, The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saraswati is also unique in that she is the only major deity in worship who does not have an elaborate Purana or Tantra text written up to justify her worship and enumerate the benefits of so doing.
		Saraswati surpasses all the waters in greatness, she is mighty and powerful (the first historical reference to female deities of power).
		Saraswati ensures the fertility of the earth, and as such she is asked to also take care of the needs for humans to be fruitful and multiply, both in progeny as well as in bank balance and store of cattle.
	www.indiayogi.com /content/indgods/saraswati.asp (2016 words)

	India: Rebirth of Saraswati, Aug 18, 2002 The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Saraswati deity as we know her today, took form and was imaged in the age of the Puranas and almost all Indian religions remain emotionally attached to the deity.
		In the Rig Veda, the Saraswati appears as a goddess of ritual and speech; as a river goddess; as a river.
		Saraswati in most of the references to it in the Rig Veda is not a particular river, but the river goddess.....
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/sarasvatirebirth01.htm (3897 words)

	Saraswati - The ancient holy river of Haryana - Kunal - Ghaggar - Vedic - India
		There are numerous references to the river Saraswati in the ancient Indian literature of the Vedic and post-Vedic period.
		River Sutluj, the Vedic Shatadru, joined the river Saraswati as a tributary at Shatrana, approximately 25 km south of Patiala.
		It has been established that the river Saraswati, carrying the waters of three perennial and numerous seasonal rivers, was a mighty river in the Vedic times.
	www.haryana-online.com /saraswati.htm (424 words)

	Lecture : RSF IIT Bombay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is probable that the quake raised the entire river and sea bed profile, leading to the drying up of river Saraswati and the formation of the Thar deserts.
		Prof Valdiya also speculates that the Yamuna river played a role in Saraswati's demise: stream piracy by Yamuna at a later stage was responsible for the ultimate loss of water and drying up of the Saraswati river.
		Thus tectonic activity was mostly responsible for the changing of the course of the river from west to east and this headward erosion resulted in Saraswati.s waters being drained into the Yamuna.
	www.iitb.ac.in /~rsf/saraswati.html (739 words)

	Scientists prove existence of mythical Saraswati river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Their hard work proved that the river, adored in the Rigveda and celebrated in the traditions for thousands of years, is not a myth but a ground reality.
		The major sources of glacier waters were lost for the Saraswati, he said, adding further that the Landsat and IRS-IC and ID imageries, geological and groundwater surveys have eloquently established the entire course of this holy river over a distance of 1600 km from Har-ki-Dun (Uttaranchal) to Gujarat.
		The project will transfer waters from the surplus river basin to deficit areas of the country, he said adding that it will be major effort in flood control and also to provide employment opportunity to half-a-million people for five years.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0501/6.html (652 words)

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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...
		The river Sarasat unites with the ocean to the east of Suminath.
		The migration of river Saraswati seems to be caused by tectonic disturbances in HardwarDelhi ridge zone, Luni Surki lineament, Cambay Graben and Kutch fault facil itated by contrasting climatic variations.
	www.geocities.com /ravi_sans/indus_sarasvati.htm (8280 words)

	Saraswati – the ancient river lost in the desert
		Judged in the broader perspective of geological evolution, disappearance or disintegration of rivers, shifting of their courses, capture of one river by another (river piracy), steady decline of waters culminating in drying up of their beds, are all normal responses to tectonism (uplift, faulting, subsidence, tilting), earthquakes, adverse climate and other natural events.
		A few of the south Indian rivers like the east-flowing Pennar, Palar and Cauvery draining into the Bay of Bengal and west-flowing Swarna, Netravathi and Gurupur draining into the Arabian Sea are known to have changed their courses or got dismembered due to uplift of land.
		Mainly, Indus and Saraswati, were the two major river systems of northwestern India during the Vedic period but the network of their tributaries, some of which are known to have deviated from their initial course or become non-existent today, have given scope for grouping these rivers into convenient classifications.
	www.ias.ac.in /currsci/oct25/articles20.htm (4076 words)

	REL249: Saraswati: Origins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The river was navigable in the third and fourth millennium, BCE, from the Gulf of Khambat (Lothal) throughout Surkotada and Kotda (Dholavira, close to Bet Dwaraka) and upward th rough Nara-Hakra-Ghaggar-Sarasvati channels, right through to Mathura.
		All of the sacrifices and worship practices were primarily done on the banks of the river; the river wa s considered the most pure and auspicious place to do these sacrifices.
		The river was described in the Vedas as the "Mother of all rivers."
	www.courses.rochester.edu /muller-ortega/rel249/saraswati/origins.html (726 words)

	Saraswati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saraswati is regarded as the Goddess of knowlede and the arts.
		Saraswati is revered as the dispeller of chaos and confusion.
		Saraswati is depicted as clothed in white, seated on a white lotus playing the instrument veena.
	www.dollsofindia.com /read/saraswati.htm (178 words)

	Deccan Herald News page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saraswati, which literally means a river of lakes, and deified as a goddess, is mentioned for the first time in the Rig Veda, a ritual text dated between 1500 and 1000 BC.
		In the Tenth Mandala of the Rig Veda, Saraswati is described as a river flowing between the Yamuna and the Sutlej.
		In later Vedic literature, the Mahabharata and the Puranas, the Saraswati is said to have originated at Plaksha prasravana under the Sivalik belt and disappeared at Vinasana near Sirsa in Haryana.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/oct26/sl3.asp (976 words)

	The Water Page - River Ganges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Ganges river basin is one of the most fertile and densely populated in the world and covers an area of 400 000 sq miles (1 000 000 sq km).
		The river courses in the delta are broad and active, carrying a vast amount of water.
		The water supply to the river depends on the rains brought by the monsoon winds from July to October and the melting snow from the Himalayas during the period from April to June.
	www.thewaterpage.com /ganges.htm (1355 words)

	The Saraswati:- Where lies the mystery
		The river was obliterated within a short span, in the Quarternary period of the Cenozoic era, through a combination of destructive catastrophic events.
		The decline of the river appears to have commenced between 5000 and 3000 B.C., probably precipitated by a major tectonic event in the Siwalik Hills of Sirmur region.
		The diversion of the river water through separation of its tributaries led to the conversion of the river as disconnected lakes and pools; ultimately it was reduced to a dry channel bed.
	www.gisdevelopment.net /application/archaeology/site/archs0001.htm (763 words)

	Killer quake breathes life into 'mythical' Saraswati river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Saraswati river -- the missing third link in Allahabad's Sangam -- is making a sudden, pleasant appearance in quake-injured Gujarat.
		Geological experts say, "In all likelihood Saraswati, the distributary of Indus which had vanished mysteriously, has changed its course towards Kutch." They say Saraswati is the most likely source of these streams as its falling point was the ancient city of Dholavira.
		This water could be from those river sources that had vanished thousands of years ago," says Prof R.S. Chaturvedi, a senior geo-scientist.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0201/13.html (427 words)

	Indian voters wreak vengeance on arrogant cabinet ministers -DAWN - International; 16 May, 2004
		Joshi liberally funded any idea that glorified Vedic Aryan or Hindu civilization, such as using satellite imagery to rediscover the mythical Saraswati river on the banks of which it was supposed to have grown.
		Meanwhile, extant rivers were drying up or being converted into vast sewers for lack of funds and management.
		His last endeavour, now stalled by the BJP's electoral debacle, was a plan under which his ministry would have seized control of the autonomous Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), famed for providing the brains for several global corporations, by interfering with their fee structure.
	www.dawn.com /2004/05/16/int16.htm (967 words)

	REL249: Saraswati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Saraswati posseses all the learnings of the the Vedas, scriptures, dancing, musical power and poetry.
		She revealed language and writing to man. Her origin is the lost Vedic river Saraswati.
		This is the source of her profound connection to fluidity in any aspect (water, speech, thought...).
	courses.ats.rochester.edu /muller-ortega/rel249/saraswati (79 words)

	varnam - More on Saraswati river civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Among the questions that remain unaswered are the chronological sequence between the vedic culture and the Saraswati river culture.
		The script of Indus valley (or Saraswati Valley) civilization which most of the scholars thought is based on so called dravinian script (and they could never decipher it) has been deciphered by Indian archaeologists using Brahmi and old Vedic script.
		This civilization was on the bank of Saraswati river and ended around 1900 BC same time when Saraswati river dried up.
	varnam.org /blog/archives/2003/09/more_on_saraswa.html (1166 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Pune archaeologists hope the Saraswati will unlock mysteries of the past
		There are different hypotheses as regards the identity of the people who thrived on the banks of the Saraswati, with one school of thought insisting that it was the Aryans and the other believing that they were non-Aryans.
		For one, the Rig Veda mentions flourishing townships on the banks the Saraswati that are characterised by strong fortifications.
		Around 1970, archaeologists arrived at the conclusion that the river Haqra, by which name the Ghaggar was known after it entered Pakistan, was part of the Saraswati, informs Dr Shinde.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/apr/29rigved.htm (543 words)

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