Why old Ghaggar cannot be the Rigvedic river Sarasvati?
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is the most celebrated river in the Rigveda on whose banks numerous hymns were composed. While many rivers are merely named, Sarasvati is described at length…
Author of The Vedic People (Orient BlackSwan), English Education in India, 1715-1835 (Routledge), Sanskrit & British Empire (Routledge), Science and the British Empire (Routledge) and (Jointly with Jayant Narlikar) of Astronomy in India (INSA)
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is the most celebrated river in the Rigveda on whose banks numerous hymns were composed. While many rivers are merely named, Sarasvati is described at length…
Rajesh Kochhar Sarasvati is mentioned prominently, repeatedly and in detail in the Rigveda as a real river. It also figures in the secondary Vedic literature as well as in…