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Sarasvati River: Bharatiya civilization Siwalik hills were left-laterally displaced. NNW-SSE-trending tear fault is still active. The earlier west-flowing rivers were swung southwards, following the path of the fault. The Bata stream which oins Yamuna from the west has a very wide valley. "NRSA, ISRO, Hyderabad) Dr. S. Kalyanaraman Babasaheb (Umakanta Keshav) Apte Smarak Samiti, Ban alore 2004 1 SARASVATI RIVER: BHARATIYA ,IVI-I.ATION by S. Kalyanaraman Copyri ht Dr. S. Kalyanaraman Publisher: Baba Saheb (Umakanta Keshav) Apte Smarak Samiti, Ban alore Copies can be obtained from: S. Kalyanaraman, 3 Temple Avenue, Srina ar Colony, Chennai, Tamilnadu ,00015, .ndia email: kalyan901yahoo.com Tel. 2 91 44 223505503 4a5 2499,380 Baba Saheb (Umakanta Keshav) Apte Smarak Samiti, 7adava Smriti, 55 4irst 8ain Road, Seshadripuram, Ban alore 5,0020, .ndia Tel. 2 91 80 ,,55238 Bharatiya .tihasa Sankalana Samiti, Annapurna, 528 C Saniwar Peth, Pune 411030 Tel. 291 020 4490939 Library of Con ress catalo uin in publication data Kalyanaraman, Srinivasan. Sarasvati/ S. Kalyanaraman .ncludes biblio raphical references and inde5 1.River Sarasvati. 2. .ndian Civilization. 3. R. veda .SBN 81-90112,-9-1 4.RST PUBL.SHED: 2004 2 Sarasvati River: Bharatiya Civilization Bharata Bhuracana This is a map of Ve etation Cover, 18000 C14 years a o prepared on the basis of hundreds of studies related to the lacial a e between 18,000 to 10,000 years before present (BP). Durin the last ice a e (when laciers covered more land area than today) the sea level was about 400 feet lower than it is today. At that time, laciers covered almost one-third of the land. The le ends of the map: 1. Tropical rainforest (ever reen or semi-ever reen forest of humid tropics, usually tall) 9. Savanna (dense rassland with a scatterin of trees and/or bushes) 10. Temperate ever reen forest 29. Lakes and open water. The map shows that continuous civilization and settlements of people in the re ions covered by the present-day Bharat and countries to the east and west of Bharat, south of the Himalayan ran es. .ndi enous evolution of civilization in Bharat is summarized based on the followin chronolo ical cultural seAuences attested by archaeolo y: 3 ,ulture Stages Years Before Present 0BP1 Post-Sarasvati Northern Black Polished Ware 2,00-2100 0post-Harappan1 Painted Brey Care 2800-2400 Ochre-Coloured Pottery (Lustrous Red 3500-3300 Care) Sarasvati -ate Sarasvati 0-ate Harappan1 0Harappan1 Sarasvati (8ature) 3900-3300 Early Sarasvati 4,00-3900 Pre-Sarasvati 5000-4,00 Stone Age Neolithic2,halcolithic 8500-0500 8esolithic 12000-8500 Upper Palaeolithic 32000-12000 8iddle Palaeolithic 102000-32000 Lower Palaeolithic 200000-100000 The scientific, historical reality of River Sarasvati Archaeological settlements in Sarasvati River Basin: Kaliban an, Bana_wali, Ra_khi arhi. FAfter Goshi and Bisht, 1994H. Out of 2,,00 archaeolo ical sites in North-west Bharat, 2,000 sites have been discovered on the banks of River Sarasvati makin it the Sarasvati Civilization of circa 3300 to 1500 BCE (Before Common Era). 8aIor sites are: Rupana ar, Rakhi arhi, Banawali, Lakhmirwala (Bhatinda, PunIab), Kaliban an, Dholavira, Dwaraka, Lothal, Somnath. Satellite ima es and eomorpholo ical studies have established the entire course of Vedic Sarasvati River over a distance of 1,,00 kms. from 8anasarovar lacier (Himalayas) to Somnath (Prabhas Patan, BuIarat). BARC scientists have proved throu h tritium analysis the channels) carryin lacial waters dated to over 8,400 years Before Present. Plate tectonics caused by the clash of .ndian Plate and Eurasian plate resulted in the tiltin of the terrain of north-west Bharat This led to mi ration of 7amuna river towards Ban a to constitute the Triveni San amam and of SutleI river towards Sindhu. Sarasvati River was thus deprived of lacial, Himalayan waters. .t flows even today as a small stream, dependent on monsoon waters of the Siwalik ran es near Adi Badri (near 7amunana ar, Kurukshetra). People called Parvatis in Har-ki-dun valley (the ori in point of River Sarasvati near 7amunotri) even today celebrate an annual festival honourin Duryodhana J an emphatic affirmation of the historicity of Mahabharata. The Mahabharata war was fou ht on the banks of River Sarasvati. Veda Vyasa was observin the celestial events from the banks of River Sarasvati 4 and he has recorded 150 astronomical events in the Breat Epic. These events have been proved usin modern Planetarium Computer Software to have occurred in 3000 BCE. Mahabharata and Sarasvati thus become the sheet anchors of modern and ancient history of Bharat. ,ultural metaphors and cultural continuity of Bharatiya civili3ation That 8anasarovar lacier was reco nized in ancient te5ts is archaeolo ically attested by the finds of sKiva lin a at Harappa and Kaliban an3 the shape of the lin a is a metaphor of the shape of the summit of 8t. Kailas at the foothills of which is the 8anasarovar lacier reco nized as the cultural capital of Bharat in the bharatiya tradition. Plate L FcH Lin am in situ in Trench Ai (8S Vats, 1940, Excavations at Harappa, Vol. .., Calcutta): M.n the adIoinin Trench Ai, 5 ft. , in. below the surface, was found a stone lin am FSince then . have found two stone lin ams of a lar er size from Trenches ... and .V in this mound. Both of them are smoothed all overH. .t measures 11 in. hi h and 0 3/8 in. diameter at the base and is rou h all over.K (Vol. ., pp. 51-52) Shape of 8t. Kailas summit compared with the shape of sKiva lin a which is e5emplified by 12 Iytorlin a sthana on river banks. The followin key dates are found to be consistent with the sky inscriptions observed by Veda Vyasa: • KrishnaNs departure on Revati Sept. 2,, 30,0 BCE • KrishnaNs arrival in Hastinapura on Bharani Sept. 28, 30,0 BCE • Solar eclipse on Gyeshtha amavasya Oct. 14, 30,0 BCE • Krittika full moon (lunar eclipse) September 29, 30,0 BCE • Car starts on November 22, 30,0 BCE (Saturn in Rohini, Gupiter in Revati) • Cinter solstice, Ganuary 13, 30,, BCE • BhishmaNs e5piry, Ganuary 10, 30,, BCE 8a ha shukla ashtami • A fierce comet at Pushya October 30,0 BCE • Balarama sets off on pil rima e on Sarasvati on Pushya day Nov. 1, 30,0 BCE • Balarama returns from pil rima e on Sravana day Dec. 12, 30,0 BCE 5 • On the day Bhatotkaca was killed moon rose at 2 a.m., Dec. 8, 30,0 BCE These dates, in particular the occurrence of Cinter solstice which is a critical celestial event, ets corroborated by the chronolo y of Kaus'i_taki Brahmana which should not be far- removed from the date of S'atapatha Brahman.a (2920 BCE) which has been established by Dr. BN Narahari Achar based on the Brahmana observations that the Kritthika (Pleiades roup) rose e5actly at the east point (eta_ ha vai pra_cyai disNe na cyavante: SNBr. .. Kanda, Ch. 1, Br. 2,3). http://www1.shore.net/Oindia/eIvs/eIvs0502/eIvs0502.t5t http://www1.shore.net/Oindia/eIvs/issues.html War starts on Nov. 22, 3067 BCE as observed by Ved Vyasa A historical proIect in search of River Sarasvati to discover our roots, has become a ma nificent opportunity for national resur ence and to make Bharat a developed nation. This is presented in three sections: observations, conclusions and areas for further research. Observations 8any sparks have emer ed from the anvils of scholars and researches of a variety of disciplines J all focused on the roots of civilization of Bharat. , Collated to ether, these sparks have become a floodli ht which throws new li ht on the civilization of Bharat. .t is a new li ht on the civilization because of the followin reasons: • A mi hty river, a river mi htier than Brahmaputra had drained in North-west Bharat for thousands of years prior to 1500 BCE (Before Common Era). • The collective memory of a billion people, carried throu h traditions built up, eneration after eneration, recalls a river called Sarasvati3 this memory is enshrined in the celebration of a 8ahakumbha 8ela celebrated every 12 years at a place called Praya where the River Ban a Ioins with River 7amuna. River Sarasvati is also shown as a small monsoon-fed stream in the topo-maps of Survey of .ndia and in villa e revenue records in PunIab and Haryana. 7et, the tradition holds that there is a triven.i san: amma (confluence of three rivers). The third river is River Sarasvati. This tradition has now been established as a scientific fact J round truth -- thanks to the researches carried out usin satellite ima eries, eo-morpholo ical studies, laciolo ical and seismic studies and even the use of tritium analysis (of traces of tritium present in the bodies of water found in the middle of the 8arusthali desert) by atomic scientists. The desiccation of the river was caused by plate tectonics and river mi rations, between 2500 and 1500 BCE. These studies have established beyond any doubt that River Sarasvati was a mi hty river because it was a confluence of rivers emanatin from Himalayan laciers3 the River SutleI and River 7amna were anchora e, tributary rivers of River Sarasvati. The river had drained over a distance of over 1,,00 kms. from 8anasarovar lacier (C. Tibet) to Somnath (BuIarat) with an avera e width of ,-8 kms. At Shatrana (south of Patiala), satellite ima e shows a 20 km. wide palaeo-channel (ancient course), at the confluence of five streams J SutleI, 7amuna, 8arkanda, Aruna, Somb J referred to as PanOca Pra_ci_ Sarasvati in Bharatiya tradition.