Sarasvati Sarovar at Adi Badri, Haryana

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Sarasvati Sarovar at Adi Badri, Haryana

 

An eye-witness report from Adi Badri, Haryana

 

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It was a thrilling experience when we visited Adi Badri, recently, a

place where River Sarasvati emerges into the plains. We were

overwhelmed to see in the Sarasvati River valley nestled in the

foothills of Himalayan glaciers, a magnificent, engineering marvel

converting the valley into a sarovar. The valley now bears the

appearance of a tapo-bhumi since it has been transformed into a

pilgrimage-heritage site. Devoted pilgrims will throng the site in

thousands in the days to come to find spiritual solace and re-

energize themselves for their life-mission. Students of history will

find at the site, an experience of their life-time, related to our

historical and cultural heritage and see their own images mirrored

in the sarovar as a tribute to our ancestors who created the

Sarasvati civilization.

 

 

 

Apart from being a pilgrimage-heritage site, the site should now be

added to the structures to be visited by all water management

experts from all parts of the country, to witness a stellar example

of water-harvesting and watershed management. We feel confident that

the vision offered by the Sarasvati valley at Adi Badri, will be an

inspiration to the youth of Bharat, who will be able to carry the

torch of converting Bharat into a developed nation, realizing the

India Vision 2020.

 

 

 

Sarasvati Sarovar at Adi Badri

 

 

 

Sarasvati Sarovar has been constructed and is ready to be dedicated

to the nation at the foothills of Siwalik mountains at Adi Badri, 40

kms. north of Jagadhri (Yamunanagar), Haryana. The Sarovar is

located at the place where River Sarasvati emerges, at the present

time, into the plains from Himalayan glaciers. The sarovar which has

bathing ghats makes Adi Badri a pilgrimage and heritage site.

Enroute from Jagadhri, the pilgrims can also visit Kapalamochan-

Rinamochan where melas are held every year – Karthik Purnima day and

Vasanta Panchami day (the day commemorating the birth of River

Sarasvati) -- and visited by lakhs of pilgrims. At Kapalamochan is a

gurudwara commemorating the visit of Guru Govind Singh. A copper

plate inscription and a manuscript written by Guru Govind Singh

himself is available at this site. Adi Badri is located at a

distance of 40 kms. from Jagadhri which can be reached either from

Kurukshetra or Ambala on a two-hour journey by road. Ambala is on

the National Highway 1 and is on the Highway linking Delhi-Panipat-

Kurkshetra (Pipli)-Ambala. Jagadhri also has a Railway Station on

the railway line linking Delhi and Jullundur.

 

 

 

Impetus for National Water Grid and making Bharat a developed nation

 

 

 

The Sarovar, measuring 80 m. X 82 m., with bathing ghats, is

situated amidst the embrace of Himalayan ranges and in an idyllic

setting in the valley overlooked by the mandirs of Adi Narayan,

Kedarnath and S'akti Mantra Devi, in the surrounding hilltops.

Enveloping the Sarovar is a Herbal garden with rare herbal plants of

vedic heritage. The construction of the Sarovar is a stellar example

of watershed management and afforestation utilizing 11 check-dams as

water-harvesting structures. The waters of Sarasvati river like the

waters of River Ganga are clean, clear, pure and without any

contaminants. When His Excellency the President of India, Bharat

Ratna Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam visited the exhibition organized at

Omchandra Devi Lal Herbal Park at Chuhurpur, near Jagadhri, on 19

April 2004, he was impressed by the satellite images, revenue

records and other evidence presented to establish River Sarasvati as

ground-truth and he made an endorsement in the Visitors'

Book, `Delighted to see the hard work in realizing the reality of

epic information'.

 

 

 

The dedication of Sarasvati Sarovar to the nation, together with the

rebirth of River Sarasvati will provide an impetus to create a

National Water Grid using the waters of the country as a national

resource to be optimally used in all parts of the country and shared

with all people whose lives are dependent upon water resources. The

creation of a National Water Grid as a Peoples' Project, utilizing

the glacier waters, river run offs, tanks, swamps, groundwater

aquifers and even desalinated sea water has the potential to make

Bharat into a developed nation by 2020, providing employment

opportunities for crores of people and doubling agricultural

production to 400 m. tonnes per year to empower the villagers of

Bharat.

 

 

 

Rebirth of River Sarasvati for greening north-west Bharat

 

 

 

 

 

hat started as a historical quest in search of Vedic river Sarasvati

has now blossomed into a model for water management systems in the

country. River Sarasvati is coming alive again to make the north-

west Bharat fertile and convert the Marusthali (desert) into green

pastures and plantations, thanks to the Rajasthan Nahar (canal)

which utilizes the waters of Rivers Sutlej and Beas from the Harike

Reservoir. The foundation tower at Mohangarh (55 kms. west of

Jaisalmer) refers to the flow of the channel as Sarasvati

 

 

 

 

 

Mahanadi Roopa Nahar. This is appropriate since River Sutlej was

originally an anchorage tributary of River Sarasvati.

 

 

 

Historical importance of River Sarasvati

 

 

 

Map of Sapta Sindhu (Nation of Seven Rivers): Theatre of

Pan~cajana_h,Five Peoples Marius Fontane, 1881, Histoire

Universelle, Inde Vedique (de 1800 a 800 av. J.C.), Alphonse

Lemerre, Editeur, Paris

 

 

 

The Sarasvati Sarovar is located close to three archaeological sites

discovered and excavated on the banks of River Sarasvati. In one of

the excavations undertaken by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI),

high-grade metamorphic rocks belonging to the palaeo-glaciated

regions of Central Himalayas, have been discovered. It implies that

the Sarasvati River had entered Indo-Gangetic plains from Himalaya

at Adi Badri where the present Sarovar has been constructed. This

scientific discovery has been reported by Dr. V.M.K. Puri, the

country's most eminent glaciologist. A s'ivalinga has also been

discovered together with artifacts of potsherds, bangles relatable

to Sarasvati civilization.

 

 

 

Sarasvati Civilization

 

 

 

The roots of Bharatiya culture are to be found on the banks of River

Sarasvati. Sarasvati River, adored in Indian Civilization from the

days of the Rigveda, is not a myth but a reality, not a legend but

ground-truth. The multi-disciplinary researches have conclusively

established the ancient course of the river in the north-western

part of Bharat. Scientific investigations, recorded in the Memoirs

of Geological Society of India, have also established the reasons

for the desiccation about 4000 years ago as due to plate tectonics

and resultant migrations of the tributary rivers, River Sutlej and

River Yamuna. River Yamuna captured the waters of River Sarasvati at

Paonta Saheb (Himachal Pradesh), flowed through the Yamuna tear in

Siwalik ranges and migrated eastwards to join River Ganga at Prayag,

constituting the Triveni Sangamam. River Sutlej (S'utudri in

Rigveda) took a 90-degree turn at Ropar, 50 kms. North of Chandigarh

and migrated westwards to join River Sindhu. On the banks of River

Sarasvati was nurtured a civilization, attested by over 2,000

archaeological sites on the river basin, making it appropriate, as

suggested by many archaeologists, to name it as Sarasvati

Civilization, instead of Indus Valley or Harappan Civilization.

 

 

 

The visit to Adi Badri by Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, Sarasvati Nadi Shodh

Prakalp (website http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati with over 30,000

files, author of 7-volume encyclopaedic work on Sarasvati,

Bangalore, Babasaheb Apte Smarak Samiti, 2003), Shri Haribhau Vaze,

National Organizing Secretary, Akhila Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana

Yojana was organized on 5 October, 2004 by Shri Darshan Lal Jain,

President, Sarasvati Nadi Shodh Samstan, Jagadhri (Haryana), Shri

Vaibhav Garg, Jt. Secretary of the Samsthan and other workers. The

visit brings back the memories of the late Shri Moropant Pingle and

the late Padmashri Dr. HaribhauVakankar who led a team of 40

scientists and scholars in search of Vedic River Sarasvati after

performing yajna at Adi Badri temple, close to the place where the

Sarovar now stands dedicated to the nation as a living testimony to

their vision.

 

By -Dr. S. Kalyanaraman Director, Sarasvati Nadi Shodh Prakalp

 

 

My Comments

Number of Comments: 5

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The discovery of divine river saraswathi, the under water excavation

of city of Dwaraka and the submerged remains of poompuhar are the

three great undisputable evidence for the greatness of our

civilzation. We should project this to our people to thwart the evil

designs that want to depict our ancestors as nomadic race.

Posted by: Hariharan Chennai-India 9th Oct 2004

This gladdens us. Our Sangh should oppose all major dams. They

hasten the damage to mother earth that we Hindus venerate so much.

Still, no one in the NDA govt displayed any concern for these

issues. They were obviously guided by big industries, foreign

investors and special interest groups. They are partly responsible

for the flooding of cars on our roads. When the one lakh car from

Tatas hits the roads, it will be a disaster for the country.

Posted by: Arvind Michigan-USA 9th Oct 2004

very nice artical.we needs such good information about ancient

indian culter.India is the spritual leader of the world.

Posted by: Chandihok Holzwickede-GERMANY 9th Oct 2004

This is a treasure trove of real knowledge. We must distribute this

piece of article to all people of this land.

Posted by: Bharatiya Kolkata-Bharat 9th Oct 2004

It is double proud experience to know about our great SARASWATHI

RIVER.It is proud for us as it is symbol of our pasy civilization

and the river filling land with vegetation and providing water

facility.Thanking u for providing such a nice article

Posted by: R.Suresh Suryapet-INDIA 10th Oct 2004