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The Research:
The objective of this research is to promote an understanding of and further researches into delineating the courses of the 'lost' Sarasvati river from Har-ki-dun glacier in the Himalayas, through Siwalik ranges to the Rann of Kutch (sAgara) and to gain deeper insights into an ancient civilization that flourished on the Sarasvati and Indus river valleys circa 3000 BC.
Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization flourished circa 3000 to 1700 BC on the river valleys of Sarasvati and Sindhu rivers. The drying-up of the Sarasvati river led to migrations of people eastwards to the Ganga-Yamuna doab, westwards to Kubha river (Afghanistan) and southwards from the Rann of Kutch and Pravara (feeder into the Godavari river near Daimabad in Maharashtra) river valley, along the Arabian sea coast.
The search for the language of the times may have to be based on identification of the ancient lexemes, starting from a study of comparative morphemes (with similar sounds and similar meanings) of the present-day languages spoken in South Asia. A start has been made with a Comparative Multi-language dictionary of South asian languages, 1995 (in press on CD-ROM)
A copy of the Research work on Sarasvati River by Dr. S. Kalyanaraman, is available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format for download.
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