"The language in which reference to the seven rivers is made in the Rig Veda (x. 75,5) is very significant. ... — the rivers are addressed as 'my Ganges, my Yamuna, my Sarasvati' and so on. No foreigner would ever address a river in such familiar and endearing terms unless by long association he had developed an emotion about it."
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