India, i.e. Bharatavarsa and Jambudvipa are sacred lands known from very early times. Their sacredness is accepted in Brahmanic, Buddhist and Jain religious literatures. Jambudvipa is some times identified with the whole of Asia, including India as a part of the continent. Very few people know that India, our sacred motherland, was not the same topographically, in ancient times, as she stands now. The courses of many rivers, very sacred as they have been, have ...
