1.SARASWATI RIVER:MYTH OR REALITY

It has long been thought that the Sarasvati river was a myth...however, as early as 1872, C. F. Oldham and R. D. Oldham undertook a detailed study of the area where the Saraswati and its tributaries were thought to have flowed.

They located the course of the Sarasvati and concluded that the Sarasvati had once been fed by two large rivers, the Sutlej and the Yamuna- before disappearing, following a westward movement of the first and an eastward movement of the second.

Various scientific researches (by remote sensing or isotopic geology), as well as excavations, have been able to establish even more precisely the history of Sarasvati.

Indian IRS-1C satellite imagery photos, combined with those provided by radars imagery from the European Remote Sensing Satellite, have identified underground portions of the Sarasvati that still exist today in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan.

Another satellite study showed that there was a natural channel between the Indus and Sarasvati rivers, confirming that the two were interdependent.

After the Pokharan nuclear explosions of May 11, 1998, the Bhabha Atomic Research Center conducted a series of tests to estimate impact on the water quality [SS1] in the surrounding area. Tests revealed that the water was drinkable and that it was about 8,000 to 14,000 BCE old!

It would have flowed down from the Himalayan glaciers and would have slowly been recharged by the aquifers from the North, in spite of scant rains. These revelations lend weight to the theory of what is now called the “Lost Sarasvati.” https://www.garudabooks.com/an-entirely-new-history-of-india