Study of History - Maulana Kausar Niazi

RIGVEDA & CULTURE OF PUNJABI COLONISTS
Swat, river Kurram, valley of Goroal and river
Sindbu are very conspicuous, which shows that
Rigveda was well acquainted with these rivers.
The strangest thing is that Rigveda had seen
the spectacle of those rivers which flowed into
the Sind river in the lower part of the Sind province
and had named this confluence of rivers as
the Sindbu Sea 2
Rigveda has mentioned every one of the five
rivers of the Punjab, Jhelum, it calls “Vatista,”
Chenab “Skini,” Ravi ‘TrcLvati,” Bias, it calls
“Dlpak” and Sutlej “Kindi! Satcirdo/' and it has
given a full description of these rivers .
An idea of the historical value of Rigveda
can be formed by the fact that it
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has given full
details of the battles fought between ten kiDgs
on the banks of the river Ravi. These details
throw a flood of light on the mutual conflicts of
the Aryans.
According to the learned scholar, Lederg,
Rigveda did not merely throw light on the mutual
conflict of ten kings, it also mentions the battle
fought at Harappa, which was the greatest cultural
centre of the Punjab, between the Aryans
2. Ibid.
3. Cambridge History of India, I, 79.
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