KURUKSHETRA: The Saraswati isn’t a myth and also the river used to flow at Haryana until early 15th century (1402 AD), finds a new study of this Centre of Excellence for Research on the Saraswati River (CERSR) at Kurukshetra University.
CERSR manager Professor A R Chaudhari, that has been focusing on the River as 2005, stated the findings from his research’Saraswati River in northern India (Haryana) and its particular function in devoting the Harappan culture websites — 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 study is to understand that the chronology of incidents, particularly the origin and also the time interval when water ceased flowing within this river system at the foothills of Yamunanagar at Haryana.
The research asserts that almost all of the paleo-channels of this river system from Haryana and adjacent Rajasthan have been tracked.
“The river program contains two important paleo-channels.
One goes through Yamunanagar, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Pehowa, Kaithal, Jind, Fatehabad and Sirsa prior to entering Hanumangarh at Rajasthan.
The next signifies the Drishadwati river, that is a tributary of the Saraswati in Vedic times, moves through Yamunanagar, Karnal, Panipat, Sonipat, Jind and Hisar districts before flowing through Rawatsar at Rajasthan.” The analysis found that the old 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.
The group by KU and Inter-University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi, discovered that major archaeological sites in Haryana — Siswal, Rakhigarhi, Banawali, Bhirrana, Kunal, Balu and Thana — are all situated at a distance of less than 500m in the Saraswati or even the Drishadwati paleo-channels.
Additionally, 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 worsening of monsoons and drought conditions that resulted in close lack of flow within the channels.
Haryana government had put up CERSR in KU at 2017, with a mandate to validate the Saraswati river network along with its affiliated legacy.