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.
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,
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.
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:
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,
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
River Saraswati has changed its course of flow at many points of time as it's flow gradually lessened before completely drying up.
Now look at few description from our scriptures:
In later Mandal of Rigveda, River Saraswati is mentioned but it looses the grand stature of RV 10:75. That means composer is now looking at River Saraswati as one of the main River of
Mahabharata Anushashan Parva (139-140, 146) Saraswati is described as one of the main rivers flowing beautifully.
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To be continue ....
