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R e-discovery of River Sarasvati
Everyone agrees that Rigveda was
perceived on the banks of River
Sarasvati. In one rica, the Rigveda
notes: sarasvati saptathi sindhu maataa
(sarasvati as the mother of seven rivers;
sindhu means ‘natural ocean frontier,
river’.) As Sarasvati connotes the roots
of Hindu civilization, Coedes’ (French
epigraphist’s) work on Hinduised states
of southeast Asia, show that Hindu
migrated eastwards along the Indian
Ocean Rim to set up the largest Vishnu
mandiram of the world in Nagara Vatika
(Angkor Wat). Hindumahaasagar is the
only ocean so named after the Hindu
rashtra. This is an evocation of an
extraordinary span of time from Vedic
times to the early centuries of the
Common Era when Hindu culture
reached many shores along the Indian
Ocean rim which extends over 63,000
miles.
The story of the discovery of Vedic River
Sarasvati and a riverine, maritime
civilization of ancestors of the presentday
Hindus everywhere has been made
possible by a remarkable coalition of
scientists of a number of disciplines
ranging from archaeology to glaciology.
Rishi Gritsamada among Rigveda rishis,
calls Sarasvati as mother, river and devi
(ambitame, naditame, devitame
sarasvati). This shows that Sarasvati had
attained the stature of a devi, divinity even
in Rigvedic times. Why was she, a river,
called a mother? Because, she nurtured
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a civilization on her banks. A civilization
evidenced by over 2,000 archaeological
sites out of a total of 2,600 sites of the socalled
Indus Valley Civilization, making
it appropriate to call it Sarasvati
Civilization.
Archaeological excavations and a series
of scientific discoveries have established
beyond doubt that the evolution of Indian
civilization was indigenous and that the
Sarasvati was once an over-ground
reality, flowing from the Himalayas to the
Indian Ocean.
Importance of the river
The river figures in the Mahabharata,
and flows north of the Kurukshetra
battlefield. The epic writers however, also
noted its drying up and the resultant
desertification of the land, recording for
posterity that the river was “disappearing
into the desert” and was later “lost.” It is
truly noteworthy that when in modern
times British archaeologists mapped the
Indus Valley sites, they found most were
located round the dried-up Ghaggar-
Hakra (Sarasvati), which is why modern
Indian archaeologists feel it should be
renamed the Sarasvati civilization. The
Indus Valley civilization was so named
because the first site discovered by Sir
John Marshall in the 1920s, Mohenjo
Daro or “mound of the dead,” happened
to be situated in the Indus Valley.