Chautang

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Origin and route

The Chautang river is a seasonal river in the state of Haryana, India. It is a remnant of the Drsadvati and joins the Ghaggar-Hakra River east of Suratgarh in Rajasthan.[3] This river was one of the main contributors to the Sarasvati river until the Yamuna changed its course.[4] However, according to recent studies, Yamuna changed its course towards east some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago, and that Chautang is a rain-fed river and the Yamuna had not been pouring any water into it for the last 10,000 years.[5][need quotation to verify]

Identification with Vedic rivers

Several modern scholars identify the old Ghaggar-Hakra River as the Sarasvati river and the Chautang river with the Drishadvati river of Vedic period, on the banks of which Indus-Sarasvati civilisation developed. such scholars include Gregory Possehl,[6] J. M. Kenoyer,[7] Bridget and Raymond Allchin,[8] Michael Witzel,[9] Kenneth Kennedy,[10] Franklin Southworth,[11] and numerous Indian archaeologists.

Gregory Possehl and Jane McIntosh refer to the Ghaggar-Hakra river as "Sarasvati" throughout their respective 2002 and 2008 books on the Indus Civilisation.[12][13]

Gregory Possehl states:

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"Linguistic, archaeological, and historical data show that the Sarasvati of the Vedas is the modern Ghaggar or Hakra."[13]

See also

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References

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External links

  1. ↑ AmbalaOnline - Rrvers of Ambala
  2. ↑ Indian Express - Ghaggar and Tangri rivers overflow
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  9. ↑ Erdosy 1995, pp. 105, 318.
  10. ↑ Erdosy 1995, p. 44.
  11. ↑ Erdosy 1995, p. 266.
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