Art. III.—The Saraswatī and the Lost River of the Indian Desert

C. F. Oldham

doi:10.1017/S0035869X00022176

Art. III.—The Saraswatī and the Lost River of the Indian Desert

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C. F. Oldham

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As is well known, the description of the Saraswatī river, given in the Veda, differs much from that met with in the Mahābhārata and other ancient but later authorities, while neither agrees with the present condition of that sacred stream.

Type: Original Communications
Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1893 , pp. 49 - 76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00022176 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 49 note 1} Muir, ii. 346.

^{page 49 note 2} Sacred Books of East, xxxii. 61.

^{page 49 note 3} Sacred Books of East, xxxii. 60.

^{page 50 note 1} Sacred Books of East, xxxii. 60.

^{page 50 note 2} Salya, Gudayuddha Parva.

^{page 50 note 3} Mahābhārata, Vāna, Tirtha-yātra Parva.

^{page 51 note 1} Muir, ii. 341.

^{page 51 note 2} Panjab Gazetteer, Hissar.

^{page 53 note 1} Muir, ii. 361.

^{page 53 note 2} Muir, ii. 393.

^{page 53 note 3} Mahābhārata Salya, Gudāyuddha Parva.

^{page 55 note 1} Journal Asiatic Society Bengal, iv. 335.

^{page 55 note 2} Muir, ii. 342.

^{page 55 note 3} Ramayana II. xlii.

^{page 55 note 4} Manu, Haughton, ii. 21.

^{page 55 note 5} Mahābhārata, Adi, Kandavadaha Parva.

^{page 55 note 6} Harivansa, Langlois, i. 437.

^{page 56 note 1} Muir, i. 338.

^{page 57 note 1} Muir, i. 417 and ii. 342.

^{page 58 note 1} Ferishta (Dow's ed.) i. 305.

^{page 59 note 1} Mahābhārata, Salya, Gudāyuddha Parva.

^{page 59 note 2} Ludiaua Settlement Report, 1851.

^{page 60 note 1} Report on Proposed Tehara Canal, 1847.

^{page 60 note 2} Cunningham's Ladākh, 135.

^{page 61 note 1} This temple is built of brick without lime. The bricks are beautifully fitted and carved.

^{page 62 note 1} Cunningham's Ladãkh, p. 132.

^{page 62 note 2} Bari Doab Canal Report, p. 46.

^{page 62 note 3} Report on Projected Canals in Delhi Territory, sheet ii.

^{page 64 note 1} Elliot, iii. 282.

^{page 64 note 2} Elliot, iii. 421.

^{page 64 note 3} Elliot, ii. 364.

^{page 65 note 1} Annals of Rajasthan, ii. 187.

^{page 65 note 2} Ib.

^{page 65 note 3} Elliot, i. 485.

^{page 65 note 4} Elliot, i. 494.

^{page 66 note 1} Annals of Rajasthan, ii. 262.

^{page 66 note 2} Elliot, ii. 344.

^{page 66 note 3} Ib. ii. 356.

^{page 66 note 4} Elliot, iii. 112.

^{page 67 note 1} Elliot, iii. 70.

^{page 67 note 2} Ib. iv. 29.

^{page 67 note 3} Ib. iv. 53.

^{page 67 note 4} Ib. iv. 33.

^{page 68 note 1} Anabasis, vi. 14.

^{page 69 note 1} Anabasis, v. 5.

^{page 69 note 2} Geog. xv. 1.

^{page 69 note 3} Ptolemy (McCrindle), p. 95.

^{page 70 note 1} Elliot, i. 142

^{page 70 note 2} Elliot, i. 203–205.

^{page 71 note 1} Al Biruni, Sachan, i. 260.

^{page 71 note 2} Elliot, i. 48.

^{page 71 note 3} Ib. i. 49.

^{page 71 note 4} Elliot, iv. 4.

^{page 72 note 1} Elliot, iii. 476.

^{page 72 note 2} Elliot, iii. 587.

^{page 73 note 1} Ancient Geog. Ind. 279.

^{page 73 note 2} Arrian Indica, xxi.

^{page 74 note 1} Anabasis, vi. 20.

^{page 74 note 2} Elliot, i. 49.

^{page 74 note 3} Elliot, i. 121.

^{page 75 note 1} Elliot, i. 172.

^{page 75 note 2} Ib. i. 172.

^{page 75 note 3} Ib. i. 172.

^{page 75 note 4} Ib. i. 189

^{page 75 note 5} Elliot, i. 34.

^{page 76 note 1} In a paper read before the Geological Society, Mr. A. Rogers, of the Bombay Civil Service, pointed out that from the geological formation of the country bordering on the Kann, it appeared that the drainage of the Panjāb once flowed into it (Journal Geological Society, February, 1870).

^{page 76 note 2} Travels in Bokhara, iii. 323.

^{page 76 note 3} Elliot, i. 125′.

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