As the brilliant engineers of Bharatam rewrite history by making the Vedic River Sarasvati flow again through interlinking with Sharada river (across an aqueduct crossing Ganga-Yamuna rivers) and joining reborn Sarasvati, it is an occasion for re-enacting the Pariyatra of Balarama described in Salya parva of Mahabharata, from Somnath, Prabhas Patan to Plaksha Prasravana, the glacial source of Maa Sarasvati. On the last day of the War, Sri Balarama returns to Dwaraka after his 42-day Pariyatra along Vedic River Sarasvati.

Sri Balarama also witnesses the gada yuddham between Duryodhana and Bhima. 12, 3067 BCE In this pariyatra, Sri Balarama visits many tirthasthana. 1, 3067 BCE Balarama returns from pilgrimage on Sravana day Dec. This could be the spot near the present-day town of Anupgarh.' (Valdiya, KS, 2002, Saraswati: the river that disappeared, Hyderabad, Universities Press, p.79) The text of Mahabharata is emphatic on the nakshtra dates of commencement and return of Shri Balarama from his pariyatra and the dates are determined by Narahari Achar/Srinivasa Raghavan as follows: Balarama sets off on pilgrimage on Sarasvati on Pushya day Nov. Balaram then reached a place where the Sarasvati turned in the eastward direction 'like the torrents of the rain bent by the action of the wind'.

However, upstream at Nagadhanva, the ground was swarming with snakes. At Vinashan, the river became invisible again. Location of Pehowa (Prthudaka)(where a ghat for worship is being reconstructed) Balarama's pariyatra 'He noticed the river vanishing at place called Udapana, where he could trace its course on the basis of vegetation growing in the moist channel bed (Shalya Parva, section 36). A route-map can be provided to re-enact the pariyatra along the Sarasvati River Basin, visiting important locations of the Sarasvati-Sindhu civilization. Researches should draw upon the technologies of remote sensing, ground-penetrating radars and drones. Multi-disciplinary researches should include studies in glaciology, archaeo-metallurgy, metallurgical researches to create new alloys, oceanography, marine archaeology, ayurveda/health-care, medical systems, agriculture/soil health, maritime trade by seafaring artisans of ancient times, Arts & Crafts of Bharatiya heritage from the Bronze Age Revolution, Adhyatmika inquiries of Vedic Culture. udapana, chamasobheda, nagodbheda) mentioned in Sri Balarama's 42-day pariyatra from Prabhasa to Plaksha Pras'ravana and return to Dwaraka. Researches have to be done to locate the tirthasthana (e.g.

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