Guest guest Posted August 4, 2002 Report Share Posted August 4, 2002 Namaste Book 'New Discoveries About Vedic Sarasvati' by Dr Ravi Prakash Arya is available. Please advise if anyone needs more info on this book. Thanks Ashwini >kalyan >vediculture >vediculture >[world-vedic] Indian satellite finds buried courses of River >Sarasvati >Mon, 29 Jul 2002 04:15:15 -0000 > >HinduThought, "kalyan97" <kalyan97> wrote: >Indian satellites finds water under desert > >Hyderabad July 28. India's remote sensing satellites have traced the >buried course of Saraswati, the mythical Himalayan river, kindling >hopes of finding drinking water under the hot sands of the Thar >desert in Rajasthan. > >Mentioned in the Rig Veda, the Hindu scripture, and other ancient >literature, the river is believed to have once flowed, parallel to >the Indus, through what is now desert before falling into the >Arabian >Sea. > >According to published literature, the river disappeared between >5000 >BC and 3000 BC due to tectonic events in the Himalayas, that cut off >the water supply, and climatic changes that converted what was once >a >lush green Rajasthan into an arid zone. > >Past attempts to accurately trace the lost river and reconstruct its >drainage system did not succeed. > >"Recent advancements in space-based sensors and in data processing >technologies made it possible", says J. R. Sharma of the Jodhpur- >based Remote Sensing Service Centre of the Indian Space Research >Organisation (ISRO). > >He and his colleagues, A. K. Gupta and G. Sreenivasan have mapped >the "palaeo channels" — relics of the river and its tributaries — >using data from three different sensors on board Indian satellites. > >Mr. Sharma said over telephone that 13 borewells drilled along the >predicted river course have yielded water at a depth of 35 to 40 >metres. > >The size of the palaeo channels, as estimated from satellite data, >was huge, about 15 to 40 metres thick, implying that there was >plenty >of water out there. "The Government of Rajasthan is planning to >increase the number of borewells to 50 in two months and has >earmarked Rs. 40 million for the project," he said, >adding, "chemical >analysis indicates these palaeo channels could form a source for >good >quality ground water." > >The ISRO scientists do not to the theory that Saraswati is >flowing as a subterranean river. "Radioactive tracer studies show >that the maximum flow of water is 15 cms per year — too slow to >indicate that connection with the Himalayan source is still there," >Mr. Sharma said. > >— PTI > >http://www.hinduonnet.com/stories/2002072901060800.htm >--- End forwarded message --- > > > _______________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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