Sarasvati in a sentence

Identification theories Vedic rivers Attempts have been made to identify the mythical Sarasvati of the Vedas with physical rivers.sfn Many think that the Vedic Sarasvati river once flowed east of the Indus (Sindhu) river.

Ashoke Mukherjee (2001) is critical of the attempts to identify the Rigvedic Sarasvati.

During these years Dayananda Sarasvati practiced various forms of yoga.

Eck p. 145 Scientists, geologists as well as scholars have identified the Sarasvati with many present-day or now defunct rivers.

Ganga and Sarasvati, however, are so distraught at this dispensation, and wail so loudly, that Vishnu is forced to take back his words.

He orders Sarasvati to become the wife of Brahma, Ganga to become the wife of Shiva, and Lakshmi, as the blameless conciliator, to remain as his own wife.

However, Mukherjee believes that "Sarasvati" is initially used by the Rig Vedic people as an adjective to the Indus as a large river and later evolved into a "noun".

Human habitations on the banks of Sarasvati and Drishadvati had shifted to the east and south directions prior to the Mahabharata period.

In 10.135.5, as Indra drinks Soma he is described as refreshed by Sarasvati.

Mukherjee concludes that the Vedic poets had not seen the palaeo-Sarasvati, and that what they described in the Vedic verses refers to something else.

Sarasvati is described to flow in the underworld and rise to the surface at some places.

The Avesta extols the Helmand in similar terms to those used in the Rigveda with respect to the Sarasvati: "the bountiful, glorious Haetumant swelling its white waves rolling down its copious flood".

The description of the Sarasvati as the river of heavens, is interpreted to suggest its mythical nature.

The Ghaggar-Hakra system has been identified as the Vedic Sarasvati river by many modern researchers.

The others invoke Sarasvati as a goddess without direct connection to a specific river.

The plaksa Pra-sravana was said to be a fig tree between the roots of which the Sarasvati River sprang forth; it is usually held to be a sacred fig but more probably seems to be a wavy-leaved fig ( F. infectoria ).

There are several other Trivenis in India where two physical rivers are joined by the "unseen" Sarasvati, which adds to the sanctity of the confluence.

The Sarasvati by this time had become a mythical "disappeared" river, and the name was transferred to the Ghaggar which disappeared in the desert.

The Sarasvati River is perceived to be a great river with perennial water.

The two major shifts were the drying of one of the important tributaries of the Sarasvati, resulting in reduced volume of water and the capture of the river Sutlej by the river Beas which rendered part of the river dry.