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English: Pre-Harappan, Harrapan, and present-day river courses in Indus Valley. Vedic Sarasvati = present-day dried up Gagghar-Hakra.
The dried-up Harappan Hakra-course is actually a Sutlej-Yamuna paleochannel (Clift et al. 2012, Singh et al. 2017).

1=ancient river
2=today's river
3=today's Thar desert
4=ancient shore
5=today's shore
6=today's town

7=dried-up Hakkra course, and pre-Harappan Sutlej paleochannels (Clift et al. (2012))
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Corrections based on:
* Clift et al. (2012), "Pb zircon dating evidence for a Pleistocene Sarasvati River and Capture of the Yamuna River", Geology 40(3):212-215, DOI: 10.1130/G32840.1. map
* “Tracing the Vedic Saraswati River in the Great Rann of Kachchh”, in Nature Scientific Reports volume 7, Article number: 5476 (2017)[1], 2017 map
Author Joshua Jonathan

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Hypothesized course of the ancient Gagghar-Hakra

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