Rivers 07 - Saraswati Becomes Adarshana

The late Vedic literature indicates Vinashana, the point where Saraswati disappears in the desert as the ‘eastern border of the World', The spot is also called ‘Adarshana', where the river became "unseeable". Thus, in the late Vedic period the Saraswati still existed and flowed, as a small stream in the Himalayan hills but disappeared in the plains. Upto the times of Mahabharata the "world", the Harappan Civilisation extended not beyond Vinashana, on the banks of Saraswati and no human settlements existed in the Ganga-Yamuna delta.