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[a] The region's name comes from پنج, panj, 'five' and آب, āb, 'water' thus "five waters", a Persian calque of the Indo-Aryan Pancha-nada meaning "five rivers". [ 4 ] The same names were often imposed on different rivers as the Vedic culture migrated eastward from around Afghanistan (where they stayed for a considerable time) to the ...
Macdonell and Keith provided a comprehensive survey of Vedic references to the Sarasvati River in their Vedic Index. [35] [j] In the late book 10, only two references are unambiguously to the river: 10.64.9, calling for the aid of three "great rivers", Sindhu, Sarasvati and Sarayu; and 10.75.5, the geographical list of the Nadistuti Sukta.
The goddess Godavari is the personification of the Godavari river. The river Godavari is strongly associated with Rama, who is said to have traversed its banks in the Ramayana. [17] According to legend, the sage Gautama lived near the Brahmagiri hills, and had gained the boon of a bottomless grain-supplying well. His foes led a cow into the ...
According to ancient history traced to Vedas, the Ravi River was known as Irāvatī (Sanskrit: इरावती). [3] The Ravi was known as Purushni [4] [5] or Irawati to Indians in Vedic times and as Hydraotes (Ancient Greek: 'ϒδραώτης) [6] [7] and Hyarotis (Ὑαρῶτις) [8] to the Ancient Greeks.
The Drishadvati River (IAST: Dṛṣad-vatī, "She with many stones") is a river hypothesized by Indologists to identify the route of the Vedic river Saraswati and the state of Brahmavarta. According to Manusmriti , the Brahmavarta , where the Rishis composed the Vedas and other Sanskrit texts of the Vedic religion , was at the confluence of ...
The Sanskrit name for the river is Vitástā, derived from an apocryphal [citation needed] legend regarding the origin of the river in the Nilamata Purana. The name survives in the Kashmiri name for this river, Vyath and in Punjabi (and more commonly in Saraiki [8]) as Vehat. [9] It was called the Hydaspes by the armies of Alexander the Great. [10]
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Yamuna is a sacred river in Hinduism and the main tributary of the Ganges River. The river is also worshipped as a Hindu goddess called Yamuna. [1] Yamuna is known as Yami in early texts, while in later literature, she is called Kalindi. In Hindu scriptures, she is the daughter of Surya, the sun god, and Sanjna, the cloud goddess.