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The Lost Sarasvati: Satellite Imagery, Geology and the Rig Veda's Sacred River
The Sarasvati is praised in roughly 50 Rig Vedic hymns as a mighty perennial river flowing from mountain to sea. By the Brāhmaṇas she had vanished. Satellite imagery, sediment cores and isotope geochemistry now let us reconstruct what happened.