Bhor Saidan
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Bhor Saidan भौर सैदां Bhour Saidan and Bhoor Saiydan |
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 Bhor Saidan
Bhor Saidan
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| Coordinates: 29°57′43″N 76°41′49″E / 29.96194°N 76.69694°ECoordinates: 29°57′43″N 76°41′49″E / 29.96194°N 76.69694°E | |
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 India
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| State | Haryana |
| District | Kurukshetra district |
| Founded by | Bhurisrava (Kaurava hero) |
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| • Type | Panchayati raj |
| • Body | Gram panchayat |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Website | www.haryanaforest.gov.in |
The Bhor Saidan (Hindi: भौर सैदां), formerly also spelled as Bhour Saidan and Bhoor Saiydan, is located 22 km from Kurukshetra and 13 km west of Thanesar on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road near Bhureeshwar Temple, one of the pilgrimage sites on the river bed of now extinct Sarasvati River in Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana. It is also the location of Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra.
Bhor Saidan village was named after Kaurava hero Bhurisrava of Mahabharta, son of Somadutta the king of Vaishali.
Bhor Saidan sits on an ancient archeological mound, on the banks of dried up river bed of Sarasvati River that dried up due to the movement of tactonic plates. Curator Archaeologist of Shrikrishna Museum in Kurushketra, Rajesh Purohit, discovered Painted Grey Ware culture (1200 BCE to 600 BCE)) pottery from the Vedic period of Mahabharata.
Chairman of Kurukshetra University's geology department , Rk Chaudhari, who colloborated with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in 2006 to conducted a study of Bhor Saidan's course of Sarasvati river, explains that the sedimentary samples from Bhor Saidan and other sites along the Sarwasati river were similar to with those found in the upper Himalayas.Government of Haryana is working on implementing the plan to make the Sarasvati river flow again, by diverting the water from the Somb river, along Sarasvati river's ancient route from Adi Badri (Haryana), where the river emerges from Himalayas, to Pehowa via Bhor Saidan.
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