Saraswati river (IAST: Sáraswatī-nadī́) is a river flowing through Indore, the commercial capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It doesn't contain freshwater but instead has become polluted^[1] mainly due to the pollution of the Kanh river.

For the past few years efforts are being done to revive the dying river by the means of projects.^[2][3]

Sárasvatī (cognate:Saraswati) is the feminine nominative singular form of the adjective sárasvat (which occurs in the Rigveda^[4] as the name of the keeper of the celestial waters), derived from ‘sáras’ + ‘vat’, meaning ‘having sáras-’. Sanskrit sáras- means ‘lake, pond’ (cf. the derivative sārasa- ‘lake bird = Sarus crane’). Mayrhofer considers unlikely a connection with the root *sar- ‘run, flow’ but does agree that it could have been a river that connected many lakes due to its abundant volumes of water-flow.^[5]

Sarasvatī may be a cognate of Avestan Harax^vatī, perhaps.^[6] In the younger Avesta, Harax^vatī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati.

It may be named after the holy Sarasvati river mentioned in the Rigveda.

• Fair river sharing
• List of rivers by discharge
• List of rivers by length
• List of rivers of India