Studies in Indian Art c8.s1.4

c8.s1.4

The Indus people were using both land and sea routes as shown by the latest discovery of their sites. There was a land route starting from Dvārāvati and going through Hālar and Ānarta between the Sarasvatī and the Māhī touched Nagarī (ancient Madhyamikā near Chittor) and through the desert of south Rajasthan connected with the Indus at a point by the Mīrpurkhas Stūpa of later times. On this route in the desert is the Harappan site of Āhar. It is expected that such remains may be exposed at Nagarī itself¹. The Harappan also took advantage of the sea-route lying at their feet along the eight hundred miles of coast line. In Saurāṣṭra the site of Lothal at the head of the Gulf of Cambay in Ahmedabad District was a sea-port with a dock-yard. Other sites are Rangpur (Dist. Jhālāwar, Saurāṣṭra, twenty miles to the south-east of Līmbḍī), Gop and Somnath, the two settlements of Mehgam on the right bank and Telod on the left of Narbada estuary and the third one of Bhagatrao, carry the migration of these pople 500 miles south-east of Mohenjodaro, a distance equal to the north-east arm upto Harappa.