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Sarasvati River

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“When the [Rig Vedic] hymns were written the focus of Āryan culture was the region between the Jamnā (Sanskrit Yamunā) and Satlaj (Shutudrī), south of the modern Ambālā, and along the upper course of the river Sarasvatī. The latter river is now an insignificant stream, losing itself in the desert of Rajasthan, but it then [in Rig Vedic times] flowed broad and strong...”
— Basham, A.L., The Wonder That Was India, third edn, Rupa & Co., Calcutta, 1981, pp. 31-32. quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“The waters of the Sarasvati [are] continuous with the dry bed of a great river [Hakra], which, as local legends assert, once flowed through the desert to the sea.”
— C.F. Oldham, 1893, quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
“We have also seen that the Vedic description of the waters of the Saraswatī flowing onward to the ocean, and that given in the Mahabharata, of the sacred river losing itself in the sands, were probably both of them correct at the periods to which they referred.”
— Oldham, C.F., ‘The Sarasvatī and the Lost River of the Indian Desert’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 34, 1893, pp. 49-76.
“Traditional Indian belief recognizes in this well-marked bed the course of the sacred Sarasvatī, once carrying its abundant waters down to the ocean and since antiquity ‘lost’ in desert sands... [The Ghaggar was] still known as the Sarsuti (the Hindi derivative of Sarasvatī) [which] passes the sacred sites of Kurukshetra near Thanesar, a place of Hindu pilgrimage.”
— Stein, Sir Aurel, ‘A Survey of Ancient Sites along the “Lost” Sarasvatī River’.quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“Sarasvati, pure in her course from the mountains to the sea.”
— Rigveda, VII, 95, 2, as quoted in David Frawley, "Witzel’s Vanishing Ocean – How to Read Vedic Texts Any Way You Like", in The Hindu (25 June 2002), 'Open Page'
“In some parts (of her course) she becomes visible and in some parts not so.”
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, tr. Kisari Mohan Ganguli vol. II, Bhisma Parva, VI.6, p. 16. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.

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“When the [Rig Vedic] hymns were written the focus of Āryan culture was the region between the Jamnā (Sanskrit Yamunā) and Satlaj (Shutudrī), south of the modern Ambālā, and along the upper course of the river Sarasvatī. The latter river is now an insignificant stream, losing itself in the desert of Rajasthan, but it then [in Rig Vedic times] flowed broad and strong...”
— Basham, A.L., The Wonder That Was India, third edn, Rupa & Co., Calcutta, 1981, pp. 31-32. quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“The waters of the Sarasvati [are] continuous with the dry bed of a great river [Hakra], which, as local legends assert, once flowed through the desert to the sea.”
— C.F. Oldham, 1893, quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 9
“We have also seen that the Vedic description of the waters of the Saraswatī flowing onward to the ocean, and that given in the Mahabharata, of the sacred river losing itself in the sands, were probably both of them correct at the periods to which they referred.”
— Oldham, C.F., ‘The Sarasvatī and the Lost River of the Indian Desert’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 34, 1893, pp. 49-76.
“Traditional Indian belief recognizes in this well-marked bed the course of the sacred Sarasvatī, once carrying its abundant waters down to the ocean and since antiquity ‘lost’ in desert sands... [The Ghaggar was] still known as the Sarsuti (the Hindi derivative of Sarasvatī) [which] passes the sacred sites of Kurukshetra near Thanesar, a place of Hindu pilgrimage.”
— Stein, Sir Aurel, ‘A Survey of Ancient Sites along the “Lost” Sarasvatī River’.quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
“Sarasvati, pure in her course from the mountains to the sea.”
— Rigveda, VII, 95, 2, as quoted in David Frawley, "Witzel’s Vanishing Ocean – How to Read Vedic Texts Any Way You Like", in The Hindu (25 June 2002), 'Open Page'
“In some parts (of her course) she becomes visible and in some parts not so.”
— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, tr. Kisari Mohan Ganguli vol. II, Bhisma Parva, VI.6, p. 16. in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.

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