The Sarasvati River is one of the chief Rigvedic rivers mentioned in ancient Hindu texts. TheNadistuti hymn in the Rigveda mentions the Sarasvati between the Yamuna in the east and the Sutlej in the west, and later Vedic texts
like Tandya and Jaiminiya Brahmanas as well as the Mahabharata mention
that the Sarasvati dried up in a desert. The goddess Sarasvati was originally a personification of
this river, but later developed an independent identity and gained meaning.
The
identification of the Vedic Sarasvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra
River was accepted by Christian Lassen,[1] Max Müller,[2] Marc Aurel Stein, C.F. Oldham[3] and
Jane Macintosh,[4] while
some Vedic scholars believe the Helmand River of southern Afghanistan corresponds
to the Sarasvati River
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