Sarasvati River

Sarasvati River appears in the explanatory geography as a named river whose described course links northern mountain country with the plains and the desert. The note presents both its route and its traditional association with the confluence at Prayag, while marking that account as a supposition rather than an unquestioned fact.

Course and Identification

The commentary identifies Sarasvati River with the river also called Sursooty, describing its source as lying in the mountains along the northeastern boundary of the province of Delhi. From there, it runs southwest and disappears into the sands of the great desert. The account gives the river a definite regional trajectory, even though it does not specify a precise endpoint beyond that disappearance.

Confluence at Prayag

The note says Sarasvati River is supposed to join the Ganges and Yamuna at Prayag, also identified there as Allahabad. This places the river within a sacred and geographical meeting of waterways, but the wording preserves uncertainty: the confluence is reported as a belief, not established as a directly observed feature of the described course.

Geographical and Textual Context

Sarasvati River is presented here through a commentator’s geographical explanation rather than through a narrated episode. The note distinguishes the river’s proposed confluence from its separately described southwestward course, leaving the relationship between the two claims suggestive rather than fully resolved.