The drying up of the Sarasvati river must have taken place some centuries earlier to the scientifically decided date of the destruction of Harrappan culture i.e., 2500 BC. This date can be termed as the terminal point of the prosperous Sarasvati culture. The Vedas contain one sukta having so many verses about the river Sarasvati. Thus, the date of the Vedas i.e., the so-called Aryan culture goes earlier to the date of the Harrappan culture and not, after it, as some Western scholars supposed without any basis. The chronology based on this supposition is proved to be incorrect. The two modern discoveries, one that of the yajnyashalas in Harappan sites and the other of the dried track of river Sarasvati have falsified the date and theory of Aryan invasion and the separateness of the Aryan and, the Harappan cultures.

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