The Kaushalya river, a tributary of Ghaggar river, is a river in

Panchkula district Panchkula district was formed as the 17th district of Haryana state in India on 15August 1995. It comprises two sub divisions and two tehsils: Panchkula and Kalka. It has 264 villages out of which twelve are un-inhabited and ten wholly merged wi ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

state of

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Origin and route

The Kaushalya river rises in the

Shivalik hills The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas that stretches over about from the Indus River eastwards close to the Brahmaputra River, spanning the northern parts of the Ind ...

on the border of

and

Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; ; "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen mountain states and is characterized by an extreme landscape featuring several peaks ...

State, and flows through

and converges with Ghaggar river near

Pinjore Pinjore is a town in Panchkula district in the Indian state of Haryana. This residential 'township', located close to Panchkula, Chandigarh, is set over 1,800 feet above the sea level in a valley, overlooking the Sivalik Hills. Pinjore is kno ...

just downstream of

Kaushalya Dam The Kaushalya Dam (Hindi: कौशल्या बांध) is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Kaushalya river, which is a tributary of Ghaggar-Hakra River ( modern remnant of ancient Sarasvati river), in Pinjore of Haryana state, India. ...

.Hillsofmorni.com - Kaushalya dam
/ref> The basin is classified in two parts,

Khadir and Bangar Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar (Hindi language: खादर और बांगर, Urdu language Urdu (;

, the higher area that is not flooded in rainy season is called ''Bangar'' and the lower flood-prone area is called ''Khadar''.HaryanaOnline - Geography of Haryana
Several archaeologists have identified the old

Ghaggar-Hakra River The Ghaggar-Hakra River is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar in India, before the Ottu barrage, and as the Hakra in Pakistan, downstream of the barrage, ending ...

with the

Sarasvati river The Sarasvati River () is a deified river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. As a physical river, i ...

, on the banks of which the

Indus Valley civilisation The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form 2600 BCE to 1900& ...

developed.

Gallery

IVC-major-sites-2.jpg, Indus–Sarasvati civilisation major sites Ghaggar river in Panchkula.jpg, Ghaggar river flowing through

Panchkula Panchkula (PKL) is a planned city and district headquarter in the Panchkula district, part of the Ambala division in Haryana, India. The origin of the name Panchkula came from the place where five irrigation canals meet. Panchkula establis ...

Flock of Cormorants, Kaushalaya dam, Haryana, India.JPG, Flock of Cormorants at

Migratory birds at Kaushalya dam, near Pinjor, Haryana, India.JPG, Migratory birds at

, near

(Dec. 2015) Migratory birds at Kaushalya dam, near Pinjor, Panchkula,Haryana, India.JPG, Migratory birds at

, near

(Dec. 2015) Migratory birds at Kaushalya dam, near Pinjor, Haryana, India.jpg, Migratory birds at

(Dec. 2015) Water of Kaushlya Dam attracts local and migratory birds.JPG, Water of

attracts local and migratory birds (June 2015)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghaggar-Hakra River Rivers of Himachal Pradesh Rivers of Haryana Rigvedic rivers Indus basin International rivers of Asia Sarasvati River Rivers of India

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