The Sarsuti river, originating in

Sivalik Hills The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas that stretches over about from the Indus River eastwards close to the Brahmaputra River, spanning the northern parts of the Indian ...

and flowing through the

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Yamuna The Yamuna ( Hindustani: ), also spelt Jumna, is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of Ba ...

, is a tributary of

Ghaggar river The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar in India, before the Ottu barrage, and as the Hakra in Pakistan, downstream of the barrage, endin ...

in of

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state of India.AmbalaOnline - Rrvers of Ambala
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Satellite images as scientific tool for Sarasvati Paleochannel and its archaeological affinity in NW India
page 106-110. Its course is dotted with archaeological and religious sites dating back to post- Harrapan Mahabharata sites from

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, such as

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, Kurukshetra,

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and

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Origin and route

The Sarsuti is a small ephemeral stream that rises in the

of south-eastern Himachal Pradesh in India, and flows through Haryana.PALAEOCHANNELS OF NORTH WEST INDIA
Central Ground Water Board, last page of preface. It is

before Yamuna shifted towards east due to plate tectonics of

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. It has also been identified as one of the tributaries of

Sarasvati River The Sarasvati River () is a deified river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. As a physical river, ...

. It flows south-east where it is joined by two other streams, the Markanda river and the

Dangri The Tangri River, also called the Dangri River, which originates in the Shivalik Hills, is a tributary of the Ghaggar River in the Haryana state of India. Origin and route The Tangri river originates in the Shivalik hills on the border of Haryan ...

, before joining the Ghaggar river near the village of Rasula [near

]. It is thereafter known as the Ghaggar. Further downstream on the banks of the Ghaggar stands an old derelict fort [at sirsa city] named Sarsuti. According to Valdiya and Danino, Sarsuti is a corruption of the word

Sarasvati Saraswati ( sa, सरस्वती, ) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, and learning. She is one of the Tridevi, along with the goddesses Lakshmi and Parvati. The earliest known mention of Saraswati as a ...

, and the 6–8 km wide channel of the Sarsuti–Ghaggar system may have once been the

mentioned in the Rig Veda. (Chapter 1, page 12)

References

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Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization and Sarasvati River
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Origin and route

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