River Sarasvati as Eulogised in Rig Veda

Sarasvati is celebrated both as a river deity, as her name and as the goddess of knowledge and ‘vak’-speech personified, is so identified because of her act of “flow”. Etymologically the word sara means More...

The Sarasvatī: One key to Indigenism

The Sarasvatī in the RV (Ṛgveda) is a very large river fed by many tributaries. Along its banks thrived, says the RV, the 5 Aryan tribes, chiefly the Purus. The river dried up c1900 BCE. The name is cognate with More...

Yamuna: A Study of Its Links from the Sarasvati Findings- III

[contextly_sidebar id=”WmhYkSinzLoIBY5utjqVxLcYRAnqq2IE”] Sarasvati: Rain fed river or Snow fed river? As per the studies based on the hydrology research of Peter D Cliff, Yamuna did drain into Sarasvati, More...

Yamuna: A Study of Its Links from the Sarasvati Findings- II

[contextly_sidebar id=”vdoLuzMmuuGmD5H3H2umRp1R8M1rhnN1″] In the last part, we dealt with Yamuna Saraswati Drainage links and the Kuru territory and its connection to the Yamuna. Let us now look into More...

Yamuna: A Study of its Links from the Sarasvati Findings-I

Introduction This paper focusses on the rivers, and their interconnections and linkages, especially Yamuna and Sarasvati, which flowed through the Kuru territories as described primarily in the Mahabharata, but More...