River Saraswati, Rigveda, Mahabharata and Our Civilization.
Saraswati has been a point of discussion when we look at the antiquity of civilization.
It has been concluded that gradually drying Saraswati led to outward migrations at regular interval in past thousands of years,
result of which there are many ancient civilization in western Asia having Vedic and Sanatana roots.
Let's take a look at some facts and try to understand our civilization.
River Saraswati was completely dried up by 1500 BCE - 2000 BCE.
Archeological evidence of Harappan establishment are during that time.
There has been many Researchers working on hydrogeological study of the Saraswati River bed and when we combine the research of all these studies, we find that:
River Saraswati completely dried up in 2000 BCE.
It was drying up and was on support of few other local rivers showing herself at few places during 3000 BCE - 4000 BCE
It was flowing at some places beautifully while became invisible at few places,
but met with other rivers near West of Gujarat during 4000 BCE - 6000 BCE.
It was flowing as perennial river supported by heavy monsoon during 10,000 to 13,000 BCE
It was most grand River of the Indian subcontinent with span of few kilometres