The Ghaggar is a seasonalriver in India, flowing when water is available from monsoonrains. It originates in the Shivalik mountain range of Himachal Pradesh and flows through Haryana and Punjab to Rajasthan, where it disappears into the Thar Desert. The Saraswati flows into the Ghaggar, in Haryana. This article is about divisions of a year. ... For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A waterfall on the Ova da Fedoz, Switzerland A river is a large natural waterway. ... A falling water droplet Water (from the Anglo-Saxon and Low German wæter) is a colourless, tasteless, and odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is the most universal solvent. ... Monsoon in Vindhya in centre India A monsoon is a periodic wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia. ... Rain falling Rain on an umbrella Rain is a form of precipitation, as are snow, sleet, hail, and dew. ... Himachal Pradesh (हिमाचल प्रदेश) is a state in northwest India. ... Haryana (हरयाणा) is a state in northwest India. ... Punjab (ਪੰਜਾਬ, पंजाब) is a state in northwest India, part of a larger Punjab region. ... Rajasthan (राजस्थान) is the geographically largest state in northwestern India. ... The Thar Desert (also known as the Great Indian Desert) is a desert located in the state of Rajasthan in northwest India. ... The present-day Saraswati (or Sarasvati) is a small river in Haryana in India that flows into the Ghaggar River. ... Haryana (हरयाणा) is a state in northwest India. ...
Until about 2000 BC - 1500 BC, the river was much larger, taking water from other nearby rivers that now flow into the Indus River. The dried-out channel of the river continues into Pakistan where it is known as the Hakra River. The Indus (सिन्धु नदी) (known as Sindhu in ancient times) is the principal river of Pakistan. ... The Hakra is the dried-out channel of a river in Pakistan that until about 2000 BC - 1500 BC was the continuation of the Ghaggar River in India. ...
Many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found along the Ghaggar and Hakra rivers. The rivers are often identified by Hindu Nationalists as the Vedic Saraswati River. However, most secular archeologists - and most archeologists of non-Indian origin - reject the identification of the Ghaggar with the Saraswati. The location, and even the historicity and existence of the Saraswati is disputed. The Indus Valley Civilization existed along the Indus River and the Vedic Sarasvati River in present-day Pakistan. ... The Hindu Vedas mention a river named Sarasvati. ...
The wide river bed of the Ghaggarriver suggest that the river once flowed in great strength, and that it formerly continued through eastern Pakistan in the presently dry channel of the Hakra River, possibly emptying into the Rann of Kutch.
The beforehand narrow Ghaggarriver bed itself is becoming suddenly wider at the conjunction where the Sutlej should have met the Ghaggarriver.
There is also a small present-day SaraswatiRiver that joins the Ghaggarriver and appears to be one of the branches of the ancient river.
There are Indus Valley Civilization archaeological sites on the Ghaggar and its continuation, but not further downstream than Bahawalpur province of Pakistan, as if the water could not be relied on for irrigation any further downstream.
The distance between the Harahvaiti and the Ghaggar (and its tributary, still called Sarasvati today) is some 600 km, and it was suggested that the name was reassigned after the Indo-Aryans had reached the Punjab, thus tracing the route of the Indo-Aryan migration.
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