Ganga

The MYSTICAL SARASWATI

      Most foreigners, especially scientists, assume Saraswati is a figment of mythological imagination.

     However, many distinguished Indian geologists believe it really did exist. They argue that the Saraswati river would have risen in the Himalayas and now flows into the Ghaggara in Pakistan. Various authors have speculated that Saraswati was the parent river of both Satluj and Yamuna. They are convinced it flowed into Rajasthan, through the Thar desert and out into the sea in Gujarat. Its disappearance would have been caused by earthquakes and seismic movements in the Himalayas. None of the authors makes the link to the Sarawasti of Sangam fame, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t have happened. There are indeed important rivers - Karnali and Satluj - which rise on the north side of the Trans-Himalayas in Tibet, but flow through ancient, deep and narrow gorges down into the southern slopes of the drainage divide, against all apparent laws of geology.