"Archaeological evidence demonstrates that the Hakra flood plain was densely populated between the fourth and the second millennia B.C.... the Ghaggar-Hakra is ‘often identified with the sacred Sarasvatī River of the Vedic Aryans’... ‘certain that in ancient times the Ghaggar-Hakra was a mighty river, flowing independently [of the Indus] along the fringes of the Rann of Kutch’."
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Mughal, M.R., Ancient Cholistan: Archaeology and Architecture°, p. 22.in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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