El riu Saraswati (sànscrit: सरस्वती नदी - IAST sárasvatī nadī) és un dels set rius mítics de l'hinduisme mencionats al Rigveda.
Hi ha qui vol identificar el riu actual Ghaggar-Hakra amb el riu Sarasvatí dels texts antics, però molts autors disputen el fet que aquest riu sigui el riu sagrat que es troba efectivament mencionat en el Rigveda.
A poca distància del riu Saraswati, neix el riu Chitang, el qual corre paral·lel a ell durant uns quilòmetres.Hunter, Sir William Wilson. The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Londres: Trübner & co., 1885.
Vegeu també Rigveda Sarasvatí
Referències
Gupta, S.P. (ed.). 1995. The lost Saraswati and the Indus Civilization. Kusumanjali Prakashan, Jodhpur. Hock, Hans (1999) Through a Glass Darkly: Modern "Racial" Interpretations vs. Textual and General Prehistoric Evidence on Arya and Dasa/Dasyu in Vedic Indo-Aryan Society." in Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia, ed. Bronkhorst & Deshpande, Ann Arbor. Keith and Macdonell. 1912. Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Kochhar, Rajesh, 'On the identity and chronology of the ic river ' in Archaeology and Language III; Artefacts, languages and texts, Routledge (1999), . Lal, B.B. 2002. The Saraswati Flows on: the Continuity of Indian Culture. New Delhi: Aryan Books International Oldham, R.D. 1893. The Sarsawati and the Lost River of the Indian Desert. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1893. 49-76. Puri, VKM, and Verma, BC, Glaciological and Geological Source of Vedic Sarasvati in the Himalayas, New Delhi, Itihas Darpan, Vol. IV, No.2, 1998 Radhakrishna, B.P. and Merh, S.S. (editors): Vedic Saraswati: Evolutionary History of a Lost River of Northwestern India (1999) Geological Society of India (Memoir 42), Bangalore. Review (on page 3) Review
S. G. Talageri, The RigVeda - A Historical Analysis chapter 4
Enllaços externs
Is River Ghaggar, Saraswati? by Tripathi,Bock,Rajamani, Eisenhauer Saraswati – the ancient river lost in the desert by A. V. Sankaran The Saraswati: Where lies the mystery by Saswati Paik
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