sapta-sindhu
sapta-sindhuThe 'seven rivers' of the Rigvedic homeland in the northwest of the subcontinent; the riverine heartland of the Vedic people.
Where this term appears
- Sarasvati: The River That Vanished History
It is a river with banks and a current, a real presence in the world of the people who sang it, set among the sapta-sindhu , the seven rivers of the Vedic homeland.
- The Aryan Migration Debate History
…nd outside India and describes no migration into it; its world is the Sapta Sindhu, the land of seven rivers in the northwest, and to the people who composed it that land was simply home.
- The Vedic Age: A Civilization That Left No Ruins History
The rivers are named and praised, above all the lost Sarasvati and the sapta-sindhu , the seven rivers of the homeland.
- What is Tirtha? Pilgrimage in Hindu Life Temples
This is a later, Puranic-period list, and it should not be confused with the Sapta Sindhu , the "seven rivers" praised in the Rigveda 's river-hymn, the Nadistuti (RV 10.75).
- When, and Whose Treatise
The poets sing of the Sapta Sindhu , the seven rivers , the land of the northwest of the subcontinent, the Punjab and its neighbours.