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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Anthony Appleyard"
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:>... I > suspect that before Man and his
livestock and fires came, the Indian > monsoon and forest supported
by it went much further into the > northwest of India including the
Indus plain, and the lower part of > the River Sarasvati got plenty
of water in the wet season from local > rain regardless of what the
upper Sutlej and Yamuna flowed into.
The upper part of the River Sarasvati also gets plenty of monsoon
waters around the month of August. The river (as shown on Survey of
India maps, topo-sheets and village revenue records) flows even
today during this season and gets obstructed by the sand-dunes of
Anupgarh. Two years ago, there was flood in Anupgarh (anu_pa in
R.gveda means a water pool) in Rajasthan when 10,000 cattle were
washed away in floods and the Prime Minister had to rush emergency
aid to the farmers. This is a recurrent feature, year after year.