"The hymn, which seeks to glorify Indus as the greatest of all rivers, enumerates two types of rivers – First, those which flow into the Indus, directly or through a tributary Second, those which do not flow into the Indus and reach the ocean or a desert lake independently. My hypothesis is that the hymn mentions each and every river in the first category, because of which even the smallest tributaries and sub-tributaries of Indus are mentioned."
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quoted in A Reply to Michael Witzel’s ‘Ein Fremdling im Rgveda’ (Journal of Indo-European Studies, Vol. 31, No.1-2: pp.107-185, 2003) by Vishal Agarwal 11 August 2003
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