THE RIVER SARASWATHI
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There are many legends about the mystic and legendary river The Saraswathi. We all revere Goddess Saraswathy as the mother of learning also. During KALASA POOJA when we perform archana on KALASA we always chant the names of Hindus’ sacred rivers thus : “ गंगयै नमः, गोदावर्रै नमः, सरस्वथ्त्है नमः नर्म्मदायै नमः , सिन्धवे नमः. We also chant “ गन्गे चा यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वति ,नर्मदे सिन्धु कावेरी जलेस्मिन सन्निधिं कुरु “ Why ancient Hindus treated them as sacred is our survival itself was based on them. Our ancestors were living on the sides of the river beds from where our civilization started. when we read the Vedas we find many tantalizing descriptions of this mystic river . But, there is no one now who has seen it. When I went to KASI, I asked the PUROHIT there to tell me where was SARASWATHI RIVER for which, he pointed at a distance and said that the river had become ANTHERVAHINI and water from Sraswathi River could be seen in a well at that place . I felt like laughing at him. Even we were in doubts whether this river was flowing through Bharath starting from The HIMALYAS and flowing down and joining the Arabian Sea and making Rajasthan desert fertile, till we got a satellite image of the River which is given above. This discovery has helped many archaeological scientists who excavated about 1000 sites. The prehistoric town of KALIBANGAN is one of the sites in Rajasthan through which this mythological river was passing, as per the archaeological scientists, about 3000 years BC.In Rig Veda hymns in Book 10 – 75 our Indian Rivers have been described. There are 10 Rivers described in the Rig Veda thus “O Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Shutudri(Sutlej), Parushni (Iravati, Ravi), follow my praise! O Asikni (Chenab) Marudvridha, Vitasta (Jhelum), with the Arjikiya (Beas) and Sushoma (Sohan), listen!” again from the Wikipedia “Verses in Rig Veda 6-61 indicate that the Sarasvati river originated in the hills or mountains (giri), where she "burst with her strong waves the ridges of the hills (giri)". It is a matter of interpretation whether this refers only to the Himalayan foothills like the present-day Sarasvati (Sarsuti) river. “

In many texts of our Vedas, Upanishads etc. we can see the name of The River Saraswathy mentioned.
I am sure as we chant in Sankalpa about MERU PARVATHA this river was definitely flowing starting from the HIMALAYAS and through the present deserts of Rajastan making it fertile was flowing and reaching the Arabian Sea and ultimately flowing into it.

I request readers to read the passage about the “Re-discovery of River Sarasvati”
http://www/. Eshiusa.org /article Saraswathy etc and the efforts taken by our scientists to make the Rajasthan desert fertile.

Friends, in my opinion , the descriptions given in the Vedas, Puranas etrc. about our rivers, ,civilization, mountains etc are true and might have lost due to a big TSUNAMY or any other such big natural calamities.
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