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Figure 8: The Ṛgvedic Rivers Summary Map

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Figure 9: The rivers Dṛṣadvatī, Āpayā and Sarasvatī. The places Mānuṣa, Iḷaspada, and Bhāratī Tīrtha in the Ṛgvedic region Nābhā Pṛthivyā / Vara ā Pṛthivyā which is identical to the Aitihāsic Kurukṣetra with its four corners. 

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Figure 10: The map shows the three important locations Mānuṣa, Iḷaspada and Bhāratī Tīrtha, their current names and their distance from the central location on the river Āpayā

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Figure 11:The Sapta Sindhu Region

Figure 12: The Śaryaṇāvat, Gandharva region, and the Mūjavat Mountains.The locations like Suṣoma, Ārjika, Pastyāvati (Takṣasilā, Taxila) and the Lake Śaryaṇāvati. Sarayu (Haro) and Sindhu (Indus) rivers. It is the region of the western Ikṣvākus (Tṛkṣis).

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Figure 12: The Śaryaṇāvat, Gandharva region, and the Mūjavat Mountains.The locations like Suṣoma, Ārjika, Pastyāvati (Takṣasilā, Taxila) and the Lake Śaryaṇāvati. Sarayu (Haro) and Sindhu (Indus) rivers. It is the region of the western Ikṣvākus (Tṛkṣis).

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Figure 13: The Gāndhāra of Mahābhārata

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Figure 14: The location of the Aitihāsic Magadha is too far away to be Kīkaṭa

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Figure 14: The location of the Aitihāsic Magadha is too far away to be Kīkaṭa

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Figure 16: The migration of the Kīkaṭas from the east of Gaṅgā to the east of Kanyakubja and finally to Girivraja (Rajgir, south-Bihar), captured in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa.

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Figure 17: The Matsyas along Yamunā and the Matsyas along Virātanagari in Rajasthan  

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Figure 18: The migration of Cedi from Sarasvatī along the northern boundary of the Thar Desert to an eastern location near:

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Figure 19: The final destination of Cedi along the Śuktimatī (Ken) River, a tributary of Yamunā joining it from the south, in the Bundelkhand Region

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Figure 20: A river channel plot, showing Yamunā to the east (right). To its west (left) is the old channel of Yamunā (our Yavyāvatī candidate). To its west (left) is Chautang (Dṛṣadvatī / Hariyūpīyā).

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Figure 21: The tentative location of Bṛbu (and Paṇis of Gaṅgā) marked on Gaṅgā.

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Figure 22: The southward migration of the Yādavas from the south-eastern corner of Vara Pṛthivyā (Kurukṣetra) and Yamunā to Mathura in the south and Dvāraka in the far south-west.

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Figure 23: Śaṃtanu migrates from Yamunā-Sarasvatī region to the western Gaṅgā establishing Hastinapura. The Kuśikas migrate from the western Gaṅgā to Kanyakubja (Kanauj)  and finally to Kauśikī (Kosi) River in northern Bihar.

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Figure 24: The later migrations of Saṃvaraṇa-Bharatas – Pradīpa (at Vāraṇāvata) - Śaṃtanu, Dhṛtarāṣtra / Pāṇḍu (at Hastinapura) – Pāṇḍavas (at Indraprasta).

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Figure 25: Two southern channels of Sarasvatī are seen in the hydrology maps and satellite maps.

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