By Milind Arolkar
New Delhi, August 1: Denouncing
any references in Indian mythology under the pressure of Communist
ideologues for years, the Government now seems to realize that the Hindu
mythology is actually a factual documentation of a well-cultured human
civilization.
Answering in reply to a question in the
Lok Sabha, The Minister of State V. Narayanasamy told the Indian
lawmakers that the Indian government has made efforts to trace the
origin of the Vedic Saraswati river and has also constituted a committee
for this purpose. The Minister even told that the Indian Space Research
Organization [ISRO] has studied the palaeochannels in North West India
and related them to the channels of River Saraswati. ISRO has not
constituted any committee for this purpose, said the Minister.
Narayansamy told the House in March that
an integrated palaeochannel map of River Saraswati has been prepared
from the origin in Himalayas to Rann of Kutchch. The origin of the
mapped course of the River Saraswati palaeochannel in North West India
was linked to Himalayan perennial source through Sutlej and Yamuna
Rivers.
He further said that the work on
delineation of the entire course of river ‘Saraswati’ in North West
India was carried out using Indian Remote Sensing Satellite data along
with digital elevation model. Satellite images are multi-spectral,
multi-temporal and have the advantages of synoptic view, which are
useful to detect palaeochannels. The palaeochannels are validated using
historical maps, archaeological sites, hydro-geological and drilling
data. It was observed that major Harappan sites of Kalibangan
[Rajasthan], Banawali and Rakhigarhi [Haryana], Dholavira and Lothal
[Gujarat] lie along the River Saraswati.
Existence of the mightiest Saraswati river
The Saraswati civilization is evidenced
by over 2,000 archaeological sites out of a total of 2,600 sites of the
so-called Indus Valley Civilization, making it appropriate to call it
Saraswati Civilization.
The geological and glaciological
evidences say that a stream of Sarasvati was supposed to have originated
in Bandapunch located in current Uttarakhand. Descending through
Adibadri, Bhavanipur and Balchapur in the foothills to the plains, the
river took roughly a southwesterly course, passing through the plains of
Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally marching out into the
Arabian Sea at Prabhas Pattan covering the Great Rann of Kuchchh.
Geologists say that at one time it had
at least 3 tributaries, Shatadru originating from Mt Kailas, Drishadvati
from Shiwalik Hills and the old Yamuna. They flowed together along a
channel, presently known as Ghaggar in Punjab, Hakra and Nara. Research
reports by geologists have revealed that the drainage systems/
paleochannels of this area came into existence more than 8000 years back
as is indicated by the age of waters trapped beneath the desert in
Jaisalmer of west Rajasthan.
Then descending through Adibadri,
Bhavanipur and Balchapur in the foothills to the plains, the river took
roughly a southwesterly course, passing through the plains of Punjab,
Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally it is believed to have marched
out into the ancient Arabian Sea at the Great Rann of Kutch near Prabhas
Pattan.
ISRO imagery
Such huge database prompted the Indian
Space Research Organization to locate the stream of the Saraswati river.
In its publication “Indian Remote Sensing Satellite Series and
Applications: A Saga of 25 years” ISRO says – “Remote Sensing data in
association with GIS has also provided a non-destructive technique in
recognizing historical settlements or archaeological sites. Locating and
identifying the ancient site of Dwaraka, settlement sites along the
Saraswati river basin using IRS data have been studied in detail
[Thakker, 2001].”
Expeditions and efforts to revive the ‘lost’ river
On 19 November 1985, when the “Akhil
Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Samiti” initiated the ‘Vedic Saraswati River
Search Expedition”, some eyebrows raised against it. But the revelations
about Saraswati river placed with the scientific facts stunned the
suspicious minds. The success of this expedition was for the first time
ever cleared the confusion in Indian minds about its roots and knowledge
centric civilization of thousand years.
In 1985, a rigorous and minute survey
expedition exercised by the eminent historian Dr. Vishnu S. Wakankar and
senior RSS pracharak late Moropant Pingale, came out with some splendid
facts and Findings.
The ‘Vedic Saraswati River Search
Expedition’ stated that the Vedic Saraswati river rises in the Himalayas
and appears in the 6 to 8 km wide horizontal plateau of ‘Aadibadri’.
Approximately 10 thousand years ago the mainstream of the Saraswati
river was disrupted because of the lift of the Himalayas due to some
tectonic activities. Saraswat region was populous region and the
Saraswati valley was known for agriculture and pre – Hadappa settlements
existed there. Primeval human 'Ramapithikas' was born in the Shivalik
ranges in Saraswat valley. The renowned Mahabharata war fought on the
banks of Saraswati. Gradually the flow of the river Saraswati started
drying and the flow got disappeared. The Vedic society flourished on the
banks of Saraswati but spread throughout the world after its
extinction.
A wide network of scholars has proven
the authenticity of the ancient Saraswati river. The satellite images of
ancient water streams, geological surveys and ground - surveys of water
have demonstrated the extinct streams to confirm the authenticity of
the mighty Vedic river.
BARC unearth the underground Saraswati
In 1997, the nuclear scientists of the
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre [BARC] interpreted Landsat-imagery of the
western part of Rajasthan which revealed buried courses of the river
running between the two ends of north-east to south-west. This was
stated in the January 1997 issue of "Current Science" journal. The BARC
study confirmed that the buried course has links with the dry bed of the
Ghaggar river in the northeast [ShriGanganagar district, Rajasthan]
while in the south-west it met or cut across surviving courses of the
Hakra and Nara rivers in Pakistan.
The BARC findings of potable water 30 to
60 m. below the ground, through ground morphological studies. After the
Pokharan blasts on 11 May 1998, the Isotope Division of the BARC led by
Dr. S.L. Rao took water samples from 800 deep wells within a radius of
250 kms. of Pokharan. Their findings showed there was no nuclear
contamination of the ground-waters.
BARC came out with some remarkable
findings. BARC found that the waters tested were potable. The waters
were derived from Himalayan glaciers and importantly they were between
8000 to 14000 years old. And lastly as a unintended fallout of the
Pokhran tests, BARC found that the waters were being slowly recharged
through aquifers from somewhere in the north despite the fact that there
was a record of very scanty rainfall in the semi-arid region of
Marusthali.
Even former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has expressed interest in the revival of this heritage river.
Sole efforts by Govt
In 2002, in the NDA government led by
then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Culture Minister Jagmohan
announced excavation to trace the ancient course of the Saraswati and
set up a team of four experts. “Marxist historians have fed us on a
certain kind of history. One should not close options,” Jagmohan had
commented. Later, Baldeo Sahai of ISRO, Ahmedabad, archaeologist S
Kalyanraman, glaciaologist Y. K. Puri, and water consultant Madhav
Chitle were teamed up to carry out the first phase of excavation from
Adi Badri to Bhagwanpura in Haryana followed in second phase from
Bhagwanpura to Kalibangan on Rajasthan border.
Will the Saraswati flow again?
Based on the evidence gathered through
excavations, the archaeologists have concluded that between 7000 BC to
2500 BC an advanced civilization, Vedic in nature, was flourishing along
Sarasvati and Indus rivers. When Sarasvati started drying up, the
civilization moved towards west beyond Sindhu, east beyond Ganges and
south beyond Godavari.
Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, director of the
‘Sarasvati Nadi Shodh Prakalp’ and author of a seven-volume encyclopedic
study of the mighty Vedic river [in a journal of the Geological Society
of India No.42, 1'999 PP 25-33] says that it was possible to travel on
the Sarasvati river from the gulf of Khambat to Mathura via Lothal,
Dholavira, Granweriwala, Kalibangan, Banawali, Paonta-Doon, Rakhigarhi
and Indraprastha. Kalyanaraman is confident that the age old
mythological river will flow again.
Similarly, Serious efforts are made to
constitute a ‘Saraswati Development Authority’ for revival of the river
Saraswati. The ‘Saraswati Nadi Shodh Sansthan’ is taking massive efforts
to wake the governments and make the river Sarasvati to start flowing
again, a reality.
In the Nadi-sukta , a hymn of praise of
rivers, described in Rig veda refers ten rivers of India and identify
the Saraswati river as the most important. In addition to the Rig Veda,
the YajurVeda, Sama Veda, Atharva Veda, the Valmiki Ramayan, the
Mahabharata, Puranas, the Brahmana texts, the Manusmrti, the Meghadootam
and the Avesta texts consist references of the Saraswati river.
The existence of the mightiest Saraswati
river and ancient Indian Vedic texts which were always negated by a
sect of historians predominantly Communist and the Congress governments
which were always relying on their judgments. The situation was and is
that such scholars and all the Congress led Governments have always
nullified the historical documentation elaborated in the ancient Hindu
scriptures and texts.
Now that this Central government has
come out of the shell of Communist historians and started to accept the
pre- Jesus historic civilization on Earth; it is an promising sign for
the nationhood persisting in India on the foundation of a very rich and
ancient heritage of the Vedic Saraswat civilization.
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