- Arun Nigudkar
The “Ice Age” ended 11,000 years ago. Till then the whole earth was covered with ice of thickness. This was the first recorded global warming. The first record of any habitat starts from a stream that originated in Himalayas. The ice melting process had defined the course of water and it ran down the slope on to the plateau of five states presently known as Himachal, Uttaranchal, Haryana (Punjab), Rajasthan and Gujarat. The primary flow was the river Sarasvati & she plunged into the Arabian Sea at Prabhas Tirtha (Somnath). The sea also was a new formation like that of the river Sarasvati.
In due course, the other streams flowed from Himalayas from closer distance. They either started separately or as tributaries and we get Sindhu another mighty river and all along become ‘Sapta Sindhu’ rivers – Sarasvati, Sindhu, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, joined at a later date by Yamuna and Ganga and their tributaries.
This net of rivers and tributaries took a time of 3000 years in its final formation. During this time the rivers also were being exposed to many tremors, earthquakes, as the topography of the earth was reforming. They changed their courses because of these tectonic shifting of plates within) movements often. That is how, the once mighty river Sarasvati, born 11000 years ago and flowing continuously over 6000 years, disappeared around 1900 BC at Rajasthan. The Sarasvati became a Lupta or Gupta (hidden) river. Research that was done on the dry bed of the disappeared river and its banks show us a circuitous route of Sarasvati. This route impacted a spread of 3800 sq.kms and ran a length of 1600 kms downwards from the Himalayas with a width of about 6 to 8 kms from bank to bank.
It disappeared but its existence was known and recorded. This was through the Vedas which were born on its banks. Its presence is endorsed in the hymns recited over generations and passed through time by word of mouth. “Gangecha Yamunechaiva Godaavari Sarasvati; Narmade Sindhu Kaaveri Jaleasmin Sannidhim Kuru” (Your soul is purified when one bathes in these waters of the mentioned rivers). The Rigveda speaks to Sarasvati as “Ambitame, Devitame, Naditame, Sarasvati” (You are the supreme Goddess and Supreme amongst all Rivers).The ancient Vedic civilizations worshipped her in its myriad forms - as a goddess, as a purifier of souls, as a deity, a knowledge giver, Veena-Vadini and Teacher for Centuries, generation after generation.
The Vedas (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Atharva and Samveda,) Upanishadas and Puranas together constitute our guiding principles for the various fields may it be Arts, Commerce, Medicine, Law ,Order & Justice & Various other Sciences. The identification of the basic elements of nature and they constituting the creation and defining of all matter in existence is recorded here. The 5 Elements of nature namely Prithvi (Earth), Aap (Water), Tej (Fire/Heat/Light), Vaayu (Wind/Air) Aakash (Space), existed even before the birth of the life on earth. The people on the banks of the river Sarasvati are the first race understood these ‘Pancha Mahabhuta’ or Shaktis and their power. It is on this river banks that the Aryans were born 8-10,000 years ago. They did not come here as invaders but were the original inhabitants of this land. The sciences that grew along tell us that Indian Aryans were the first to utilize the land, water and space, fire know their relationship with the nature and its powers.
Rig Veda tells us how Raja Nahusha prospered on the banks of Sarasvati. He was the first individual to introduce dairy development, farming and cultivation. The science and discipline of animal husbandry, cattle breeding, taming of horses, use of bullocks and cart introduced at a later stage led to large settlements of people. They prospered on their green pastures and herd of cattle.
Houses were constructed with certain organized patterns. They had outlet drainages to the earth & inlets of clean river water designed to reach the houses built in rows. These rows had an in-built system to control the flow of river water to houses and farms separately, without seepage. Outlets of used water to the nearby river are also found. There are also common baths located in all these settlement. They used burnt bricks to achieve this objective. They constructed roads of the same bricks. They knew following sciences,
Geometry
Meteorology
Metals (Silver, Bronze)
Civil Construction
Navigation (Lothal)
Drainage
Weaving of cloth (Textiles)
Research on Sarasvati is classified in two sections,
1. Sciences that were revealed by the river Sarasvati.
2. Sciences that have helped researching the potential of Sarasvati.
What is its relevance and importance today? The future course of research on Sarasvati.
The river Sarasvati is the biggest reservoir of untapped water. The body of water exists under the earth table from 7-11,000 years ago. The River on the surface disappeared in the earth somewhere in Rajasthan in 1900 BC. NASA, ISRO, BARC, Geological survey of India, Rajasthan State ground Water Board, and The Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Samiti, after years of research, Physical, Land-Sat, Imagery photography through satellites have been co-coordinating their efforts to find solution to meet the water shortage, India is facing. The water grid system to come in about 10 years hence, has succeeded in pumping out Sarasvati water at Kalayat (Haryana).Dr.V.S.Wakankar, Moropantaji Pingle Dr.C.N.Parchure and their colleagues ventured in 85, physically to locate the route of 1600 kms of Sarasvati and today Dr. Kalyanaraman and his colleagues are endlessly trying to dig out the water reservoir of the mighty Sarasvati with all modern techniques.
As former Director of Archaeology Dr.B.B. Lal says in is his famous book The Sarasvati flows on
“We have now seen that, Contrary to the general belief, this great civilization of the Indian subcontinent, which had its roots deep in antiquity, some seven to eight thousand year ago, and its flowering in the third millennium BC, still lives on, not as a fugitive but as a vital organ of our socio-cultural fabric. In Contrast, when we look round the world we are surprised by the fact that the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations that flourished alongside this Indian civilization have all disappeared, leaving hardly any trace behind”
To sum up the efforts we may definitely say that visualizing our past history of Sarasvati and Ramsetu through the present sciences, Vedic Hindu Civilization was basically a science oriented civilization which was the first of its kind. Our history and sciences go hand in hand. Our epics, Ramayana & Mahabharata are not myths but mile stones on the sands of time.
23 bore wells dug out of 24 initially have pumped out water of the same quality and same source showing the buried channels of a single river which is Sarasvati. The green revolution much talked about may really fructify once the canals system starting from Sarasvati interconnects all main rivers in India and the Grid system will flow in water from any river to any other river in the near future.
- Arun Nigudkar
Pitrukrupa Block No 2 Rd -16
Chembur, Mumbai -71
Tel : 25212996
Email: press.wings@gmail.com
arun.7gusha@gmail.com
Authors Books Reference
1) B. B. LAL Sarasvati Flows on -
2) Dr. V.S.Wakankar Lupta Sarasvati Nadi shodh -
3) Dr. C.N.Parchure Lost River Sarasvati
4) Rig veda 36.6 Ambitame Naditme
5) K.S Srivastav Rajasthan State ground Water
Board – Carbon dating of water -
Source 4000-8000 yrs.
6) Dr. Nilima Sontakke Bharatiya Ushna Deshiya Mousam
Vdyan Santhan Pune, Akra Hazar -
Vashantil Tapaman Vadh
7) Dr. Ravindra Ramdas 24th, 25th26th Oct 2008 Seminar on sarasvati
& Mr. Arun Nigudkar Sindhu Civilsation
New Delhi.
The “Ice Age” ended 11,000 years ago. Till then the whole earth was covered with ice of thickness. This was the first recorded global warming. The first record of any habitat starts from a stream that originated in Himalayas. The ice melting process had defined the course of water and it ran down the slope on to the plateau of five states presently known as Himachal, Uttaranchal, Haryana (Punjab), Rajasthan and Gujarat. The primary flow was the river Sarasvati & she plunged into the Arabian Sea at Prabhas Tirtha (Somnath). The sea also was a new formation like that of the river Sarasvati.
In due course, the other streams flowed from Himalayas from closer distance. They either started separately or as tributaries and we get Sindhu another mighty river and all along become ‘Sapta Sindhu’ rivers – Sarasvati, Sindhu, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, joined at a later date by Yamuna and Ganga and their tributaries.
This net of rivers and tributaries took a time of 3000 years in its final formation. During this time the rivers also were being exposed to many tremors, earthquakes, as the topography of the earth was reforming. They changed their courses because of these tectonic shifting of plates within) movements often. That is how, the once mighty river Sarasvati, born 11000 years ago and flowing continuously over 6000 years, disappeared around 1900 BC at Rajasthan. The Sarasvati became a Lupta or Gupta (hidden) river. Research that was done on the dry bed of the disappeared river and its banks show us a circuitous route of Sarasvati. This route impacted a spread of 3800 sq.kms and ran a length of 1600 kms downwards from the Himalayas with a width of about 6 to 8 kms from bank to bank.
It disappeared but its existence was known and recorded. This was through the Vedas which were born on its banks. Its presence is endorsed in the hymns recited over generations and passed through time by word of mouth. “Gangecha Yamunechaiva Godaavari Sarasvati; Narmade Sindhu Kaaveri Jaleasmin Sannidhim Kuru” (Your soul is purified when one bathes in these waters of the mentioned rivers). The Rigveda speaks to Sarasvati as “Ambitame, Devitame, Naditame, Sarasvati” (You are the supreme Goddess and Supreme amongst all Rivers).The ancient Vedic civilizations worshipped her in its myriad forms - as a goddess, as a purifier of souls, as a deity, a knowledge giver, Veena-Vadini and Teacher for Centuries, generation after generation.
The Vedas (Rigveda, Yajurveda, Atharva and Samveda,) Upanishadas and Puranas together constitute our guiding principles for the various fields may it be Arts, Commerce, Medicine, Law ,Order & Justice & Various other Sciences. The identification of the basic elements of nature and they constituting the creation and defining of all matter in existence is recorded here. The 5 Elements of nature namely Prithvi (Earth), Aap (Water), Tej (Fire/Heat/Light), Vaayu (Wind/Air) Aakash (Space), existed even before the birth of the life on earth. The people on the banks of the river Sarasvati are the first race understood these ‘Pancha Mahabhuta’ or Shaktis and their power. It is on this river banks that the Aryans were born 8-10,000 years ago. They did not come here as invaders but were the original inhabitants of this land. The sciences that grew along tell us that Indian Aryans were the first to utilize the land, water and space, fire know their relationship with the nature and its powers.
Rig Veda tells us how Raja Nahusha prospered on the banks of Sarasvati. He was the first individual to introduce dairy development, farming and cultivation. The science and discipline of animal husbandry, cattle breeding, taming of horses, use of bullocks and cart introduced at a later stage led to large settlements of people. They prospered on their green pastures and herd of cattle.
Houses were constructed with certain organized patterns. They had outlet drainages to the earth & inlets of clean river water designed to reach the houses built in rows. These rows had an in-built system to control the flow of river water to houses and farms separately, without seepage. Outlets of used water to the nearby river are also found. There are also common baths located in all these settlement. They used burnt bricks to achieve this objective. They constructed roads of the same bricks. They knew following sciences,
Geometry
Meteorology
Metals (Silver, Bronze)
Civil Construction
Navigation (Lothal)
Drainage
Weaving of cloth (Textiles)
Research on Sarasvati is classified in two sections,
1. Sciences that were revealed by the river Sarasvati.
2. Sciences that have helped researching the potential of Sarasvati.
What is its relevance and importance today? The future course of research on Sarasvati.
The river Sarasvati is the biggest reservoir of untapped water. The body of water exists under the earth table from 7-11,000 years ago. The River on the surface disappeared in the earth somewhere in Rajasthan in 1900 BC. NASA, ISRO, BARC, Geological survey of India, Rajasthan State ground Water Board, and The Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Samiti, after years of research, Physical, Land-Sat, Imagery photography through satellites have been co-coordinating their efforts to find solution to meet the water shortage, India is facing. The water grid system to come in about 10 years hence, has succeeded in pumping out Sarasvati water at Kalayat (Haryana).Dr.V.S.Wakankar, Moropantaji Pingle Dr.C.N.Parchure and their colleagues ventured in 85, physically to locate the route of 1600 kms of Sarasvati and today Dr. Kalyanaraman and his colleagues are endlessly trying to dig out the water reservoir of the mighty Sarasvati with all modern techniques.
As former Director of Archaeology Dr.B.B. Lal says in is his famous book The Sarasvati flows on
“We have now seen that, Contrary to the general belief, this great civilization of the Indian subcontinent, which had its roots deep in antiquity, some seven to eight thousand year ago, and its flowering in the third millennium BC, still lives on, not as a fugitive but as a vital organ of our socio-cultural fabric. In Contrast, when we look round the world we are surprised by the fact that the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations that flourished alongside this Indian civilization have all disappeared, leaving hardly any trace behind”
To sum up the efforts we may definitely say that visualizing our past history of Sarasvati and Ramsetu through the present sciences, Vedic Hindu Civilization was basically a science oriented civilization which was the first of its kind. Our history and sciences go hand in hand. Our epics, Ramayana & Mahabharata are not myths but mile stones on the sands of time.
23 bore wells dug out of 24 initially have pumped out water of the same quality and same source showing the buried channels of a single river which is Sarasvati. The green revolution much talked about may really fructify once the canals system starting from Sarasvati interconnects all main rivers in India and the Grid system will flow in water from any river to any other river in the near future.
- Arun Nigudkar
Pitrukrupa Block No 2 Rd -16
Chembur, Mumbai -71
Tel : 25212996
Email: press.wings@gmail.com
arun.7gusha@gmail.com
Authors Books Reference
1) B. B. LAL Sarasvati Flows on -
2) Dr. V.S.Wakankar Lupta Sarasvati Nadi shodh -
3) Dr. C.N.Parchure Lost River Sarasvati
4) Rig veda 36.6 Ambitame Naditme
5) K.S Srivastav Rajasthan State ground Water
Board – Carbon dating of water -
Source 4000-8000 yrs.
6) Dr. Nilima Sontakke Bharatiya Ushna Deshiya Mousam
Vdyan Santhan Pune, Akra Hazar -
Vashantil Tapaman Vadh
7) Dr. Ravindra Ramdas 24th, 25th26th Oct 2008 Seminar on sarasvati
& Mr. Arun Nigudkar Sindhu Civilsation
New Delhi.
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