{"id":491,"date":"2006-10-21T13:11:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=491"},"modified":"2006-10-24T06:13:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T13:13:52","slug":"bereft-of-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/bereft-of-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"bereft of waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>trembling in the mountains<br \/>\nwar between Indra<br \/>\nand demon Vritra<br \/>\nmelting of glaciers<\/p>\n<p>origin Bandapunch masiff<br \/>\nSarawati-Rupin glacier<br \/>\nconfluence at Naitwar<br \/>\nin western Garhwal<\/p>\n<p>descending through Adibadri<br \/>\nBhavanipur and Balchapur<br \/>\nfoothills to plains<br \/>\na southwesterly course<\/p>\n<p>received tributaries<br \/>\nShatadru from Mount Kailas<br \/>\nDrishadvati from Siwalik<br \/>\nand the old Yamuna<\/p>\n<p>finally debouched<br \/>\ntypically deltaic<br \/>\nat the Great Rann of Kutch<br \/>\nto the Arabian Sea<\/p>\n<p>glorified in the texts<br \/>\nher names are Markanda,<br \/>\nHakra, Suprabha,<br \/>\nKanchanakshi, Visala, <\/p>\n<p>Manorama exalted<br \/>\nin the Mahabharata<br \/>\nseven separate names<br \/>\ncovering the universe <\/p>\n<p>the decline of rivers<br \/>\nshifting their courses<br \/>\ntributaries pirated<br \/>\nby neighboring rivers<\/p>\n<p>bereft of her waters<br \/>\nmonsoon dependent<br \/>\njust pools and lakes<br \/>\na dry river bed<\/p>\n<p>traced in the Vedas<br \/>\nher flourishing empire<br \/>\ntraced on LANDSAT<br \/>\nher residual loam<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias.ac.in\/currsci\/oct25\/articles20.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Saraswati \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the ancient river lost in the desert<\/a>, A. V. Sankaran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>trembling in the mountains war between Indra and demon Vritra melting of glaciers origin Bandapunch masiff Sarawati-Rupin glacier confluence at Naitwar in western Garhwal descending through Adibadri Bhavanipur and Balchapur foothills to plains a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}