Saraswati River (Madhya Pradesh)
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}Saraswati river (IAST: Sáraswatī-nadī́) is a river flowing through Indore, the commercial capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
It doesn't contain freshwater but instead has become polluted{{cite news|last1=Jha|first1=Bagish|title=Polluted Saraswati river|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/Dying-Khan-River-of-Indore-will-get-a-new-lease-of-life-as-chief-minister-Shivraj-Singh-Chouhan-on-Friday-has-ordered-to-prepare-detail-plan-for-the-cleaning-and-purification-of-Khan-River-According-to-initial-estimate-treatment-of-polluted-Khan-River-will-cost-Rs-320-crores-With-the-CM-has-also-given-his-consent-for-the-inspection-of-Khan-River-for-proposed-River-Side-Corridor-It-was-decided-in-review-meeting-of-cleaning-and-purification-of-river-/articleshow/17889179.cms|accessdate=4 April 2016|agency=The Times of India|date=4 January 2013}} mainly due to the pollution of the Kanh river.
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For the past few years efforts are being done to revive the dying river by the means of projects.{{cite news|title=Cleaning of Saraswati river|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/indore/Khan-river-clean-up-on-course-Commissioner/articleshow/48784028.cms|accessdate=4 April 2016|agency=Times of India}}{{cite news|title=Ensure Waste not dumped|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/indore/ensure-waste-is-not-dumped-into-kahn-saraswati-rivers-ngt-s-judicial-member/story-4hw7DANCWwZns6zGnYKZ4L.html|accessdate=4 April 2016|agency=Hindustan Times}}
Etymology
Sárasvatī (cognate:Saraswati) is the feminine nominative singular form of the adjective sárasvat (which occurs in the Rigvedae.g. 7.96.4, 10.66.5 as the name of the keeper of the celestial waters), derived from ‘sáras’ + ‘vat’, meaning ‘having sáras-’. Sanskrit sáras- means ‘lake, pond’ (cf. the derivative sārasa- ‘lake bird = Sarus crane’). Mayrhofer considers unlikely a connection with the root *sar- ‘run, flow’ but does agree that it could have been a river that connected many lakes due to its abundant volumes of water-flow.Mayrhofer, EWAia, s.v. Saraswatī as a common noun in Classical Sanskrit means a region abounding in pools and lakes, the river of that name, or any river, especially a holy one. Like its cognates Welsh hêl, heledd ‘river meadow’ and Greek {{lang|grc|ἕλος}} (hélos) ‘swamp’; the root is otherwise often connected with rivers (also in river names, such as Sarayu or Susartu); the suggestion has been revived in the connection of an "out of India" argument, [http://www.omilosmeleton.gr/english/documents/RVpH.pdf N. Kazanas, "Rig-Veda is pre-Harappan"], p. 9.
Sarasvatī may be a cognate of Avestan Haraxvatī, perhaps.by Lommel (1927); Lommel, Herman (1927), Die Yašts des Awesta, Göttingen-Leipzig: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/JC Hinrichs In the younger Avesta, Haraxvatī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati.
It may be named after the holy Sarasvati river mentioned in the Rigveda.