Rooted as we are in the Gangetic culture, it is difficult to believe that the Sarasvati was the Rig Vedic Hindu's holiest river. The Rig Veda is one of the oldest of the four Vedas, talks little about the Ganges. As a historian D.D. Kosambi states: "The Ganges and Yamuna... are barely known in the Rig Veda, though the very heart of later Aryan culture. But surrenders on the progressively shrunken Sarasvati retained their special merit for a long time."

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