Most Ancient Aryan Society

Author(s): Ram Chandra Jain
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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Saraswati enjoys a position of superiority over the Indus, and even if the two rivers had joined together, the joined stream flowing to the Sea would have been known by the name of Saraswati, not by the name of Sindhu. Hence there was no region as Sapta-Sindhavah.
It appears certain from geological evidences that the formations of solid earth in Sind had taken place before the Sar 18wati full rise of the Himalayan system. The most Region ancient river from which the Brahmaputra, the Ganges and the Indus trifurcated later is known by the name "Sivālike'. This old river is believed to be the successor of the narrow strip of the sea—the remnant of the Himalayan Sea left after the main uplift of those mountainsas the latter gradually withdrew, through the encroachment of the delta of the replacing river from Nainital, Solan, Mujjafarabad and Attock to Sind.
The Saraswati river in Vedic times flowed to the ser through Eastern Punjab and Rajputana. We find Indus and Saraswati rivers as two distinct and separate rivers in Vedic times flowing to the Sea.
The records of the third century B. C. show that Indus flowed more than 80 miles to the East of its present course, though the now practically dry bed of a deserted channel, to the Rann of Cutch, which was then a gulf of the Arabian Sea. . An old river bed, the Hakra or Sotra (Ghagghar) or Wahind, more than 600 miles in length, the channel of a lost river, is traceable from Ambala near the foot of the Himalayas through Bhatinda, Bikaner and Bhawalpur to Sindh. It is probably the old bed of Saraswati at a time, when it and the Sutluj flowed independently of the Indus to the sea i. e.; the Rann of Cutchal. These geological accounts conclusively prove that there was no Rajputana Sea during