This Haryana village believes it has 'found' the mythical Saraswati river

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You are only just finding out. Our ancestors have known for ages that the Saraswati flows here,” proclaims Rajeshwar Shastri, head priest at the Kedarnath Temple in Adi Badri, Haryana. This is the site that he, and a growing tribe of the faithful, believes to be the origin of the “lost” Saraswati. His conviction, he says, owes to the years he spent as a Vedic scholar at Banaras Hindu University. “I’m not a pandit, I’m a Brahmin. I have read the Vedas and the Puranas and I can tell you with confidence that the river that flows here is the