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Sita Sar Valmeki Ashram It is ancient tank spread over
80 bighas. It is said that Sita, wife of Rama, washed
her hair in this tank when she was turned out of the
house by Rama. Even now the widows of the surrounding
area come here and wash their hair. It is also said
that at one time kumb fair of the Punjab was held
here. This tank, it is said, was filled with the water
of River Saraswati.
The River Sarasvati rises in the hills
of Sirmur in the Himalayan range called the Sewalik and
emerges into the plains at Ad-Badri in Ambala, and is
deemed as one of the most scared rivers by the Hindus. The
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in Rig-Veda as a flowing
river. Manu and the Mahabharata speak about its
disappearance in the sand at Binasana-Tirtha near Sirsa (JRAS. 1893, p. 51)
. In the Vedic period the Sarasvati was a very large river
and it flowed into the sea (Max Muller's Rig-Veda Samhita,
p. 46 commentary). The Rig-Veda does not even hint about
its sub-terrane a couse in the Triveni at Allahabad.
(The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient And Mediaeval
India 1927)
�The Mubarak Shahi gives us some idea of �Firuz Shah�s�
canal digging activity during this period. �The river
Sarsati� (Saraswati) comes from the great mountains and
falls into the Sutlej. An earthen hillock near a place
called Barwar, Firuz was informed, separated the River
Saraswati from the Salima canal (of Firuz Shah). If this
hillock was dug up, the water of the Saraswati would flow
into the canal which could then be taken to Sahrind or
Sirhind, Mansurpura and further on to sunam. Firuz went to
the place and began digging up the hillock.�Himalayan
range called the Sewalik and emerges into the plains at
Ad-Badri in Ambala, and is deemed as one of the most
scared rivers by the Hindus. The Sarasvati is described in
Rig-Veda as a flowing river. Manu and the Mahabharata
speak about its disappearance in the sand at
Binasana-Tirtha near Sirsa (JRAS. 1893, p. 51) . In the
Vedic period the Sarasvati was a very large river and it
flowed into the sea (Max Muller's Rig-Veda Samhita, p. 46
commentary). The Rig-Veda does not even hint about its
sub-terrane a couse in the Triveni at Allahabad.
(The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient And Mediaeval
India 1927)
The river still survives and flows between the yamuna and
the Sutluj. It must have been at one time a Mighty river,
but gradually she lost her slaf in the desert at a place
known as Vinasana, near `sirsa�, the traditional western
Extremity of Aryavarta and Madhayadasa. It is a tributary
of the Indus, and rises from the hills of sirmur in the
Himalayan Range in the Rigvedic Period. It was a Mighty
river and flowed into the sea.
The tank is, now, not in good condition. Shiv Mandirs have
been built in the south west and north of the tank. A
small Shitla Mata Mandir has also been built in the south
of the tank in which an ancient idol of Mata has been
installed. |