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The Ghaggar river flows into the Ottu reservoir, afterwards it becomes the Hakra river Ghaggar river's dry bed in February near Naurangdesar village, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, India. Ghaggar river, near Anoopgarh, Rajasthan in the month of September. The Ghaggar is an intermittent river in India, flowing during the monsoon rains.
In the 19th and early 20th century a number of scholars, archaeologists and geologists have identified the Vedic Sarasvati River with the Ghaggar-Hakra River, such as Christian Lassen (1800-1876), [104] Max Müller (1823-1900), [105] Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943), [94] C.F. Oldham [106] and Jane Macintosh. [107]
The Ottu barrage, sometimes spelled as the Otu barrage and also known as Ottu Head, is a masonry weir on the Ghaggar-Hakra River in Sirsa, Haryana state of India that creates a large water reservoir out of the formerly-small Dhanur lake, located near the village of Ottu, which is about 8 miles from Sirsa City in Haryana, India. [1]
Further downstream on the banks of the Ghaggar stands an old derelict fort at Sirsa town named Sarsuti. [4] After the Ottu barrage, the Ghaggar river is called the Hakra River and in Sindh it is called the Nara River. The order of rivers from left to right is the Ghaggar, Dangri, Markanda and Sarsuti.
The Ghaghara River, also known as the Karnali River in Nepal, Mapcha Tsangpo in Tibet, and as the Sarayu River in the lower Ghaghara of India's Awadh, [1] [2] is a perennial trans-boundary river that originates in the northern slopes of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau, cuts through the Himalayas in Nepal and joins the Sharda River at Brahmaghat in India.
The Chautang river is a seasonal river in the state of Haryana, India. It is theorized by some to be a remnant of the ancient river Drishadvati. [3] It joins the Ghaggar-Hakra River east of Suratgarh in Rajasthan. [4] According to McIntosh, this river was one of the main contributors to this river system until the Yamuna changed its course. [3]
Nada Sahib is a Sikh gurudwara in the Panchkula district of the Indian state of Haryana.Situated on the banks of the Ghaggar-Hakra River in the Sivalik Hills of Panchkula, it is the site where Guru Gobind Singh Ji halted while travelling from Paonta Sahib to Anandpur Sahib after the Battle of Bhangani in 1688.
The Sarsuti river, originating in Sivalik Hills and flowing through the palaeochannel of Yamuna, is a tributary of Ghaggar river in of Haryana state of India. [2] [3] [1] Its course is dotted with archaeological and religious sites dating back to post-Harrapan Mahabharata sites from Vedic period, such as Kapal Mochan, Kurukshetra, Thanesar, Brahma Sarovar, Jyotisar, Bhor Saidan and Pehowa.