Saraswati River | |
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Location | |
Country | India |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Rampur Herian (south of Adi Badri) Shivalik Hills, Haryana [1] |
Discharge | |
• location | Ghaggar river in Haryana |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Markanda river and Dangri |
The Sarsuti river, originating in Sivalik Hills and flowing through the palaeochannel of Yamuna, is a tributary of Ghaggar river in of Haryana state of India. [2] [3] [1] Its course is dotted with archaeological and religious sites dating back to post- Harrapan Mahabharata sites from Vedic period, such as Kapal Mochan, Kurukshetra, Thanesar, Brahma Sarovar, Jyotisar, Bhor Saidan and Pehowa. [1]
The Sarsuti is a small ephemeral stream that rises in the Sivalik Hills of south-eastern Himachal Pradesh in India, [4] and flows through Haryana. [5] It is palaeochannel of Yamuna before Yamuna shifted towards east due to plate tectonics of Earth's crust. [5] It has also been identified as one of the tributaries of Sarasvati River.
It flows south-east where it is joined by two other streams, the Markanda river and the Dangri, before joining the Ghaggar river near the village of Rasula [near Pehowa]. [4]
It is thereafter known as the Ghaggar. Further downstream on the banks of the Ghaggar stands an old derelict fort [at sirsa city] named Sarsuti. [4]
According to Valdiya and Danino, Sarsuti is a corruption of the word Sarasvati, and the 6–8 km wide channel of the Sarsuti–Ghaggar system may have once been the Sarasvati River mentioned in the Rig Veda. [4] [6]
Saraswati River | |
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Location | |
Country | India |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Rampur Herian (south of Adi Badri) Shivalik Hills, Haryana [1] |
Discharge | |
• location | Ghaggar river in Haryana |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Markanda river and Dangri |
The Sarsuti river, originating in Sivalik Hills and flowing through the palaeochannel of Yamuna, is a tributary of Ghaggar river in of Haryana state of India. [2] [3] [1] Its course is dotted with archaeological and religious sites dating back to post- Harrapan Mahabharata sites from Vedic period, such as Kapal Mochan, Kurukshetra, Thanesar, Brahma Sarovar, Jyotisar, Bhor Saidan and Pehowa. [1]
The Sarsuti is a small ephemeral stream that rises in the Sivalik Hills of south-eastern Himachal Pradesh in India, [4] and flows through Haryana. [5] It is palaeochannel of Yamuna before Yamuna shifted towards east due to plate tectonics of Earth's crust. [5] It has also been identified as one of the tributaries of Sarasvati River.
It flows south-east where it is joined by two other streams, the Markanda river and the Dangri, before joining the Ghaggar river near the village of Rasula [near Pehowa]. [4]
It is thereafter known as the Ghaggar. Further downstream on the banks of the Ghaggar stands an old derelict fort [at sirsa city] named Sarsuti. [4]
According to Valdiya and Danino, Sarsuti is a corruption of the word Sarasvati, and the 6–8 km wide channel of the Sarsuti–Ghaggar system may have once been the Sarasvati River mentioned in the Rig Veda. [4] [6]