Saraswati Delta - Indian History

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For those who may not be aware, there is lot of work is being done by the

Indian archaeologists about the Saraswati River Civilization - Saraswati

river has been described in Vedaas and civilization existed along its

banks. Following its description archaeological work is being done. There

is an increasing evidence that Aryans were not nomadic people as the

western historians have formulated. Those who are interested to know more

about the origin of the Indian civilization there are interesting web

links. Here is a recent post by Shree Kalyanaraman in Sanskrit Digest. The

discussion was related whether Mahabharata was a story or history. I am

taking the liberty to post it here for the benefit of others who may be

interested.

 

Hari Om!

Sadananda

 

 

(copy of the post from Sanskrit Digest)

 

One good example of the great epic being a source

of ancient Indian history is this:

In S'alya parva, there is a detailed description of

a pilgrimage undertaken by Balarama from Dwaraka to

Mathura, along the Sarasvati River. Now the river

has been found, together with nearly 1200 archaeological sites. The

course of the river matches

the description in the epic. Marine archaeology in

Dwaraka has also indicated how Dwaraka got submerged.

 

These are explained further at http://sarasvati.simplenet.com

 

To my knowledge, there is not translation of the epic available on the

web. There is a complete text (in roman script) available). Check out

the download sites:

 

ftp://ccftp.kyoto-su.ac.jp/pub/doc/sanskrit/

ftp://bombay.oriental.cam.ac.uk/pub/john/text/

 

The following site provides stores from the epic:

http://www.investindia.com/newsite/religion/mahabhar.htm

 

Best wishes; please let me know if any further info. is needed.

 

Namaskar.

Kalyanaraman

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