refers to a number of rivers located in the northwestern Indian subcontinent, from Gandhara to Kurukshetra. Identification of Rigvedic hydronyms has engaged...

and heavenly after-life." Rigvedic and later Vedic texts have been used to propose identification with present-day rivers, or ancient riverbeds. The...

composed in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent (see Rigvedic rivers), most likely between c. 1500 and 1000 BCE, although a wider approximation...

important source for the geography of late Rigvedic society. The Sarasvati River is one of the chief Rigvedic rivers. The Nadistuti sukta in the Rigveda mentions...

In Hinduism, rivers are often personified as deities. In the Rigveda, there are mentions of holy rivers such as the Sarasvati. The river Ganges is considered...

of the Himalayas HMS Indus Indus Waters Treaty List of rivers of Pakistan Rigvedic rivers Rivers of Jammu and Kashmir Sindhology Hindush Number of Indus...

system of monsoon-fed rivers terminating in the Thar Desert. The Indus Valley Civilisation prospered when the monsoons that fed the rivers diminished around...

April 2022 "Map of the Bhagirathi River showing dams" (PDF). Dams, Rivers & People. South Asian Network on Dams Rivers & People(sandrp.in). August 2008...

2016, Ganges River (India and Bangladesh); UF (use for) Gangā River (India and Bangladesh); BT (broader term) Rivers—Bangladesh, Rivers—India; NT (narrower...

hi]). He appears as a human-like serpent blocking the course of the Rigvedic rivers, and is slain by Indra with his newly forged vajra. Vritra literally...