"‘In the year A.D. 1000 it [the Sutlej] was a tributary of the Hakra, and flowed in the Eastern Nara . . . Thus the Sutlej or the Hakra—for both streams flowed in the same bed—is probably the lost river of the Indian desert, whose waters made the sands of Bikaner and Sind a smiling garden.’"
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Imperial Gazetteer of India, vol. 23, new edn, London, 1908, p. 179. Quoted by Vishal Agarwal in ‘A Reply to Michael Witzel’s “Ein Fremdling im Rigveda”’, August 2003, available online at: www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/ documents/ReplytoWitzelJIES.pdf (accessed 15 September 2009).quoted in Danino, M. (2010). The lost river : on the trail of the Sarasvatī. Penguin Books India.
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