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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 Sarasvati river is mentioned in the Rigveda, and is believed to have dried up through the course of time. [10] In some texts, it is written that once there was a terrible battle between the Bhargavas and Hehayas, and from this an all-consuming fire called Vadavagni was born, which had the potential to destroy the whole world.
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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 Ghaggar river flows into the Ottu reservoir, afterwards it becomes the Hakra river Ghaggar river's dry bed in February near Naurangdesar village, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, India. Ghaggar river, near Anoopgarh, Rajasthan in the month of September. The Ghaggar is an intermittent river in India, flowing during the monsoon rains.
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"It is the modern Chinab". " Marudvridha, a general name for river. According to Roth the combined course of the Akesines and Hydaspes". Vitasta, the last of the rivers of the Punjab, changed in Greek into Hydaspes"."It is the modern Behat or Jilam". "According to Yaska the Arjikiya is the Vipas". "Its modern name is Bias or Bejah".