Another scientific research has also proved the same thing. The American satellite Land sat has sent certain photographs of India. The analysis of these, by the scientists of the Ahmedabad Space Research Center revealed the dried bed of a big river from the Shivalik mountains near Simla up to the Ran of Kuchh. Earlier, the rivers Yamuna and Sutlej were flowing into that river. The scientists found the width of that river at some places to be six kilometers. In the Vedas, there are references to such a big river. It was called the Naditama i.e., the biggest river. Sarasvati must be the name of that river, according to Ahmedabad scientists.

Prior to these findings of the scientists of the Ahmedabad Space Research Center, many other scholars had also come to the same conclusion. Sri N. N. Godbole, an officer of the Rajasthan Government, had chemically analyzed the waters of the wells in this tract and found them to be the same ; while the waters of the wells just a few furlongs away from the tract gave a different chemical composition. Research scholars have also found a thick bed of alluvial soil under the sand bed of Rajasthan proving that some big river was flowing there for a number of years and the alluvial soil got accumulated because of it. The photographs of the American satellite have positively confirmed the conclusion of the earlier scholars. The position of the dried bed of the river is now accepted by a greater number of scholars.

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