Bhor Saidan

The Bhor Saidan, formerly also spelled Bhour Saidan and Bhoor Saiydan, is a village located 22 km from Kurukshetra and 13 km west of Thanesar on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road near Bhureeshwar Temple[1], one of the pilgrimage sites on the river bed of now extinct Sarasvati River[2][3] in Kurukshetra in the Indian state of Haryana.[4][5] It is also the location of Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra.

Bhor Saidan

Bhour Saidan and Bhoor Saiydan
village
Crocodiles Sanctuary At Bhor Saidan
Bhor Saidan
Location in Haryana, India
Bhor Saidan
Bhor Saidan (India)
Coordinates: 29°57′43″N 76°41′49″E
Country India
StateHaryana
DistrictKurukshetra district
Founded byBhurisrava (Kaurava hero)
Government
 • TypePanchayati raj
 • BodyGram panchayat
Languages
 • OfficialHindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Websitewww.haryanaforest.gov.in

Etymology

Bhor Saidan village was named after Kaurava hero Bhurisrava of Mahabharta, son of Somadutta the king of Vaishali.[6][5]

Bhor Saidan Archeology mound

Bhor Saidan sits on an ancient archeological mound,[5] on the banks of dried up river bed of Sarasvati River that dried up due to the movement of tectonic 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.[2]

Chairman of Kurukshetra University's geology department, Rk Chaudhari, who collaborated 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.[7] 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.[7]

Bhurishrava Tirtha

Bhor Saidan Tirath with Bhurirava kund (pond named after Bhurisrava) who was killed by the Arjuna (one of the pandava) in Mahabharata war, is an ancient Tirth (sacred place) within 48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra pilgrimage circuit of Hindu tirths.[5][2]

Crocodiles Sanctuary At Bhor Saidan
Mugger crocodile

Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra origin lies in the fact that Mugger crocodiles are believed to have been brought by one of the Mahants of the nearby temple of the Bhor Saidan Tirath in the 1930s. In 1980, Forests Department, Haryana took over the breeding centre and the Bhor Saidan village panchayat gave 15+ acre land to the Government of Haryana to start the breeding centre.[8] Periphery has been fenced and a mound inside the pond was created to watch the crocodiles from the close range.[9]

Demography

As per the 2011 Census of India, the village has a population of 2289; 1234 males and 1055 females in 422 families, with a literacy rate of 71.15%, 78.63% literate male and 62.72% literate female.[10]

See also
  • Crocodiles in India

References
  1. "Bhurishrava Tirtha Bhorsaidan". Kurukshetra District. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014.
  2. Joshi, Vishal (22 May 2017). "Saraswati research centre yet to come up at KU". The Tribune. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  3. "Experts for work on Saraswati river project". The Tribune. 11 February 2007. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  4. "Bhor Saidan". 2011 Census of India. Government of India. Archived from the original on 14 October 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
  5. "Bhor Saidan on Kurukshetra's official website". Archived from the original on 12 September 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  6. "Vedic Saravati channel at Bhorsaidon and Reborn Sarasvati, Rajasthan". Sarasvati blog. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  7. Joshi, Vishal (31 March 2015). "Haryana plans to flow water in ancient Saraswati riverbed". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
  8. Kumar, Akhilesh; Kumar, Sandeep; Zaidi, Yasmin Fatima; Kanaujia, Amita (22 May 2012). A Review on Status and Conservation of Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in India (PDF). Marine Biodiversity: One Ocean – Many worlds of life (Report). Uttar Pardesh State Biodiversity Board. pp. 141–148.
  9. "Revenue Department of Haryana Govt Gazeteers of Kurukshetra 2009: Chapter I" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  10. "Bhor Saidan Village Population - Pehowa - Kurukshetra, Haryana". Population Census 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
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