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The Sarawati River is believed to have drained the north and to led in ancient times, supporting over 16000 settlements. Although the have a phrical existence today, there are numerous references to it in the ancient dan literature of the Vedhe and post-Vedie period. Rig Veda, the most ancient of the Der Vedas describes Saraswati as a mighty river with many individually recognized butaries The sacred book calls Saraswati as the seventh river of the Sindhu-Saraswati system, hence the name Saptaindhu for the region bounded by rivers Saraswati the wall and Sindhu also Indus) in the west. River Saraswati originated from the Har Ki-Doo glacier in West Garhwal Standarpunch mass in the Himalayas, along with the river Yamuna. The two rivers The anal rivers and rivulets, including Ghargar, joined Saraswati as it followed the be curse of the present river through Punjab and Haryana River Sutlej, the Vedic Shatana, jeaned the river Saraswata as a tributary at Shatrana, approximately 25 km. south of Patiala Saraswati then followed the course to Ghaggar through Rajasthan and Hakra in Bhawalpur before emptying into the Rann of Kutch via Nars in Sindh a province, running parallel to the Indus River During the Vedie period, Saraswati was recognized as the greatest of the rivers that ich nurtured the people living on its banks like a loving mother, and supported a number of learning centers and their resident scholars, asceties, sages and seers like a benevolent fits deuty. In view of this, it may be safe to assume that the ancient Vedic literature was pable itself written on the banks of this river. Later, during the middle ages, there are references to fissures and faults in the ground on the dry bed of river Saraswati. Recently, satellite images have also confirmed the existence of the a large number of ground faults in the earthquake-prone northwest India that constituted the Saraswati-Sindhu valley. Such ground faults have caused the seepage of Saraswati water to underground channels, contributing to the legend of the Vedic Saraswati disappearing underground Fill in the summary using one word in each of the blanke : The Saraswati River which is non existent today was (a) the greatest the vedie period. A great civilization flourished on its (e) tenance to people and encouragement to the id) of great ancient Vedic Hterature, (1) Answer the following questions: a) How do we know that the Saraswati River had once a physical existence ? (b) Why was Saraswati considered very important during the Vedie period? CD Find words from the passage which mean the same as the following: ai come into being para 2 tb) believe ICBSE-SA-2-2019-41018)​

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a)there are numerous references to it in the ancient dan literature of the Vedhe and post-Vedie period

b)Saraswati was recognized as the greatest of the rivers that ich nurtured the people living on its banks like a loving mother, and supported a number of learning centers and their resident scholars, asceties, sages and seers like a benevolent fits deuty.