KURUKSHETRA: A research study conducted by the Centre of Excellence for Research on the Saraswati River (CERSR) at Kurukshetra University (KU) has demonstrated this river that’s frequently called”mythical”, culminating at Haryana until the early 15th Century i.e.
1402 AD.
CERSR manager Prof AR Chaudhari who’s focusing on Saraswati River because 2005 stated that the findings from the research titled’Saraswati River in northern India (Haryana) and its particular function in populating the Harappan culture sites — A research based on remote sensing, sedimentology and strata chronology’, was published in the esteemed peer SCI International Journal of Archeological Prospection, printed in the uk from John Wiley publishing team.
Prof Chaudhari explained the purpose of the research is to understand that the chronology of events from this likely Saraswati River, particularly the reason and also the time period once the water stopped flowing within this river system at the foothills of Yamunanagar at Haryana.
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From the analysis conducted by CERSR, it’s been asserted that almost all of the paleo-channels of the Saraswati River program in Haryana and adjacent Rajasthan have been tracked.
“The studies have demonstrated that Saraswati River paleo-channels type a dense net of interconnecting channels that are continuously networked for over 2,984 kilometres (km) from Haryana.
The single floodplain diameter of those channels varies from 1.5 to 13 kilometers”, ” said Prof Chaudhari.
Providing further information concerning the paleo-channels,” Prof Chaudhari explained,”Saraswati River program has two key paleo-channels.
One goes through Yamunanagar, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Pehowa, Kaithal, Jind, Fatehabad and Sirsa prior to entering Hanumangarh at Rajasthan.
The next station signifies the Drishadwati lake, and it can be a two-time tributary of the Saraswati River, goes through Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panipat, Sonepat, Jind and Hisar districts before departure during Rawatsar at Rajasthan.”
According to the study newspaper, six trenches varying in thickness from 3 meters (m) into 10m were excavated on the recognized paleo-channels covering a space of approximately 120 kilometers from foothill area of Yamunanagar into Pehowa from the Yamuna and Markanda rivers interfluve.
Additionally, close two dozen sediment samples have been chosen for optical simulation luminescence (OSL) dating and accelerator mass spectroscopy (AMS) established Carbon 14 dating, from the entire accumulated 270 sediment samples.
“The era of the sediments was assessed in combination with the textural and mineralogical features of sediments.
This analysis discovered that the Saraswati River had been flowing in Haryana by before14±5 Kato and AD 1402 after which there was a surprising lack of flow into the station afterwards”, said Prof Chaudharisaid
Concerning the question of sudden lack, Prof Chaudhari stated,”This unexpected shift seems to be the result of abrupt modification/diversion of leading stations for building five canals (Old Testament Canal ~ modern-day – that the Western Yamuna Canal — 325 kilometers long) beginning from foothills at Yamunanagar wherein there has been a substantial anthropogenic re-routing of flows in order to make water accessible at Fatehabad and Hisar.
The stations of this Drishadvati River as well as the Chautang flows are broadly used for routing this tube.”
“Apart from this, natural elements including diminished Indian summer monsoon, shrinkage of glacial cover and meltwaters, channel avulsion and station catch, climate change and tectonic disturbance of the input stations at the lower Himalayan terrain led towards the slow decay and eventual extinction of the mega river program”, maintained the manager of CERSR in KU.
CERSR staff is operating in close relationship with all the Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation Limited that possess a memorandum of understanding with Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board (HSHDB), which capital CERSR.
“The exploratory wells across Saraswati paleo-channel in Uncha Chandna afforded water that’s over 10,000 years old and also the nicely at Pabni Kalan afforded water that is approximately 7000 years of age.
At these two places, the atmosphere, predicated on stable isotope 16O/18O ratios, is of glacial origin, which points towards the arctic source of the Saraswati River as well as its continuing character.
It’s observed that among the trenches that were obtained dug near Bhadrakali Temple at Kurukshetra recorded the constant fluvial action of Saraswati River for over 5,000 years”, said Prof Chaudharisaid
This study demonstrated that the older bathing ghats (banks) in Bilaspur and Saraswati Nagar at Yamunanagar district, in Bhadrakali Temple at Kurukshetra and in Saraswati Tirtha, Thehpolar and Satora at Pehowa and in Thana at Kaithal are situated on the Exact Same Saraswati paleo-channel that extends from Adi Badri at Yamunanagar into Sirsa in Haryana and farther beyond to Rajasthan.
In this analysis, the writers from the KU and Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi reasoned that the Significant archaeological sites from Haryana, specifically, Siswal, Rakhigarhi, Banawali, Bhirrana, Kunal, Balu, Thana are situated at a distance of less than 500m in the Saraswati or even the Drishadwati River paleo-channels.
It’s been discovered that the Harappan settlements in Haryana and Rajasthan nucleated and prosper from the fertile station pubs and interfluves of the river system.
The existence of important clay beds imply that approximately 14,000 decades, 6,000 decades and 4,000 years back there has been a weakening of monsoons and drought conditions that led to close lack of circulation in the stations.
Within this analysis, the authors have concluded there is a continuity in civilization in the Mesolithic cultural period relationship 6500 to 5500 BC, during the Neolithic, the Early Harappan.
The Old Harappan and farther ahead time interval in Rakhigarhi and Bhirrana that’s a testimony of the use of the Saraswati River system in sustaining the Harappan settlements in Haryana.
The authorities of Haryana established CERSR in KU at 2017, with a mandate to validate the Saraswati River System and its affiliated heritage.
CERSR has been financed by HSHDB, Panchkula, whose chairman is currently Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar.
Currently, HSHDB is cleansing the station of Saraswati River, having a reason to stream water in this station from Adi Badri, Yamunanagar into Pehowa, Kurukshetra and additional potential in Haryana.