It is said that SITA MAA, wife of SH.RAM CHANDER JI, washed her hair in this SAROVAR when she was turned out of the house by SH. It is also said that at one time KUMB FESTIVAL of the PUNJAB was held here. This SAROVAR, it is said, was filled with the water of RIVER SARASWATI. THE RIVER SARASWATI. rises in the hills of SIRMAUR in the HIMALAYAN range called the SHIVALIK and emerges into the plains a
t Ad-Badri in Ambala, and is deemed as one of the most scared rivers by the HINDU. The SARASWATI is described
In Rig-Veda as a flowing river. Manu and the Mahabharata speak about its disappearance in the sand at BINSANA TIRTHA near SIRSA (JRAS. 1893, p. 51) . In the Vedic period the SARASWATI. it was a very large river and it flowed into the sea (Max Muller’s Rig-Veda Samhita, p. 46 commentary). The Rig-Veda does not even hint about its sub-terrene a cause in the TRIVENI at ALLAHABAD. (The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient And Mediaeval India 1927)
“The Mubarak Shahi gives us some idea of “Firuz Shah’s” canal digging activity during this period. “The river Sarsati” (Saraswati) comes from the great mountains and falls into the Sutlej. An earthen hillock near a place called Barwar, Firuz was informed, separated the River Saraswati from the Salima canal (of Firuz Shah). If this hillock was dug up, the water of the Saraswati would flow into the canal which could then be taken to Sihrind or Sirhind, Mansurpura and further on to SUNAM. Firuz went to the place and began digging up the hillock.”Himalayan range called the SHIVALIK and emerges into the plains at Ad-Badri in Ambala, and is deemed as one of the most scared rivers by the Hindus. The Saraswati is described in Rig-Veda as a flowing river. Manu and the Mahabharata speak about its disappearance in the sand at Binasana-Tirtha near Sirsa (JRAS. 1893, p. 51) . In the Vedic period the Saraswati was a very large river and it flowed into the sea (Max Muller’s Rig-Veda Samhita, p. 46 commentary). (The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient And Mediaeval India 1927)
The river still survives and flows between the yamuna and the Sutlej. It must have been at one time a Mighty river, but gradually she lost her slaf in the desert at a place known as Vinasana, near `sirsa’, the traditional western Extremity of Aryavarta and Madhayadasa. It is a tributary of the Indus, and rises from the hills of sirmur in the Himalayan Range in the Rigvedic Period. It was a Mighty river and flowed into the sea. The SAROVAR is, now, not in good condition. SHIV MANDIR have been built in the south west and north of the SAROVAR . A small SH*TLA MATA MANDIR has also been built in the south of the SAROVAR in which an ANCIENT IDOL of MATA has been installed. NOW A DAYS THIS PLACE IS KNOWN AS SHRI NEEL KAINTHESHWAR RAM MANDIR SITASAR (REGD), SUNAM (DISTT. SANGRUR) PUNJAB. IN THE CAMPUS OF MANDIR THERE IS SHIV MANDIR ,RAM DARBAR, MAA VAISHNO DEVI DARBAR and SHRI HANUMAN MANDIR IN THE MIDDLE OF SAROVAR.
