River Saraswathi and Aryan Invasion Dilemma

[Hellraiser007]

Only if you take the Yamuna as a possible tributary..... the Sarasvati was far away from the Ganga and if the theory that the Yamuna & Sutlej merged into it is taken as accurate, then the flow must have been tremendous & the corresponding flows of the Ganga & the Indus, much less.

Yamuna and Saraswathi flowed parallel to each other before taking different course. At the peak of Saraswathi it is said that the river was 10 km wide.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

The underground river is largely a myth. Rivers don't simply disappear underground. The most famous belief is that the Sarasvati flows underneath at the sangam where Ganga & Yamuna meet. The reason for the mythical presence of the Sarasvati there is simply as a way to incorporate what was the Rg veda's most famous river. The Rg veda speaks primarily of the Sarasvati especially when contrasted to the now holiest river of Hinduism, the Ganga. To make sense of the Rg veda, it was necessary to somehow create a Sarasvati & the most imaginative way was to propose that it ran beneath the now holiest river.

Bt US and ISRO satellite studies have shown the existence of an underground river?
Though they stopped calling short it as 'saraswati' , research is going on. It is possible right?

 

[Yogi]

Yamuna and Saraswathi flowed parallel to each other before taking different course. At the peak of Saraswathi it is said that the river was 10 km wide.

Check this video from 6 min onwards, that archaeologist said that the Saraswati River Channel was 22 km wide at a certain point

 

[Bang Galore]

Yamuna and Saraswathi flowed parallel to each other before taking different course. At the peak of Saraswathi it is said that the river was 10 km wide.

That's not the theory commonly proposed, some satellite imagery suggests that the Yamuna & Sutlej merged into the Sarasvati & tectonic movements might have caused them to shift away thereby contributing to the decline of the Sarasvati. The Rg veda does mention the Yamuna quite clearly and makes no mention of a merger, so you may well be right but then neither did it mention the merger with the Ganga. Ganga gets just 2 mentions in the whole of the Rg Veda while the Sarasvati is mentioned over 50 times. While some of the mentions might be to the Goddess of the same name (interesting though that this river & this river alone shares a name with an important deity), there are more mentions of the Sarasvati then there are of other rivers.

 

[Hellraiser007]

Check this video from 6 min onwards, that archaeologist said that the Saraswati River Channel was 22 km wide at a certain point

A very informative documentary mate

 

[Hellraiser007]

The River Saraswati and Saraswat Desh

The mythological river Saraswati (named after the Goddess Saraswati), flowed in Northern India in the present Punjab and Rajasthan region, from the Himalayas to the western sea near Dwaraka in Gujarat. The vedas were composed mostly on her banks. The Rig Veda describes this river as the holiest, the purest and the grandest of rivers. The river has long since dried out because it flowed from the receding glaciers of the great ice age 10,000 years ago. The land between the rivers Saraswati and Dristhadvathi (near the present day Kurukshetra) was called the Saraswat Desh which was the homeland of Saraswats who are considered the fore-fathers of Saraswats of Goa, Kanara and Kerala. There is a strong belief that in Prayag, Allahabad, flowing under-ground Saraswati joins Ganga and Yamuna to form the Triveni sangam. It is also believed that the river changed its course over the centuries. A part of this mighty river became the small river Ghaggar and one of the tributaries of the Saraswati became the Sutlej, now a tributary of the Indus. Today's scientific evidences have proven the existance of the Saraswati river.

Saraswat history

Aryans (A mythical group) has nothing to do with Vedas(European Dilemma).

 

[KS]

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I believe there is a possibility that a lot of information relevant to this issue and other things like Dwarka is being withheld by the current coterie of "court historians" who have invested a lot and have a well entrenched interest to see the current western view of the Indian history hold sway and also by the Govt to ensure that there is no rekindling of any Hindu nationalist sentiment based on that past which might be averse to their political fortunes.

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