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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.
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]
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]
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.
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]
In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Coordinates ... It is the site of the Ottu barrage on the Ghaggar-Hakra River.. [1] [2] References
The Kaushalya Dam (Hindi: कौशल्या बांध) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kaushalya river, which is a tributary of Ghaggar-Hakra River [1] (modern remnant of ancient Sarasvati river), in Pinjore of Haryana state, India. It was constructed between 2008 and 2012 with the primary purpose of water supply. [2]
Ghaggar-Hakra River: An intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. While it is often identified with the Sarasvati River, [2] this is not a consensus view. [3] The Hakra is the dried-out channel of a river in Pakistan that is the continuation of the Ghaggar River in India. Several times, but not ...