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. For the Second World War frigate class, see River class frigate The Murray River in Australia A river is a large natural waterway. ... The Ghaggar is a seasonal river in India, flowing when water is available from monsoon rains. ...
Many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found along the Ghaggar and Hakra rivers. The Indus Valley Civilization existed along the Indus River and the Vedic Sarasvati River in present-day Pakistan. ...
The Saraswati dispute
Some archeologists have identified Ghaggar Hakra river system with the Vedic Sarasvati River, based the descriptions in Vedic texts (e.g. in the enumeration of the rivers in Rigveda 10.75.05, the order is Ganga, Yamuna, Sarasvati, Sutlej), and other geological and paleobotanical findings. This however, is disputed. The Ghaggar is a seasonal river in India, flowing when water is available from monsoon rains. ... The Hindu Vedas mention a river named Sarasvatī. In Sanskrit saras means a lake or water body, and vatī (from vntī, with the zero-grade form of the -vant suffix) means a female associated with it. ... The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) is a major river in northern India. ... Yamuna is a major river of northern India, with a total length of around 1370 km. ... The Sutlej, also known as Satluj, is the longest of the five rivers of Punjab (five waters) that flows through Northern India, with its source in Tibet near Mount Kailash. ...
The Sarasvati River is an ancient river that is mentioned in Hindu texts and one of the chief Rigvedic rivers.
Sarasvati is mentioned both as the chief of the Sapta Sindhu, the seven holy rivers of the early Rigveda, and listed in the geographical list of ten rivers in the Nadistuti sukta of the late Rigveda, and it is the only river with hymns entirely dedicated to it, RV 6.61, 7.95 and 7.96.
The Sarasvati by this time had become a mythical 'disappeared' river, and the name was transferred to the Ghaggar which disappeared in the desert, which under the influence of the early hymns was made into an invisible river joining the Gangu and Yamuna.
The Saraswati River (Sanskrit: सरस्वती नदी) is an ancient river that is mentioned in Hindu texts and one of the chief Rigvedic rivers.
Saraswati is mentioned both as the chief of the Sapta Sindhu, the seven holy rivers of the early Rigveda, and listed in the geographical list of ten rivers in the Nadistuti sukta of the late Rigveda, and it is the only river with hymns entirely dedicated to it, RV 6.61, 7.95 and 7.96.
Yajurveda 34.11 says: "The five equally celebrated rivers, merged with the mighty Saraswati The same Saraswati got (divided)into five glorified flows in the country." The commentator Uvat wrote that the five tributaries of the Saraswati were the Punjab rivers Drishadvati, Satudri (Sutlej), Chandrabhaga (Chenab), Vipasa (Vyas) and the Iravati (Ravi).
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