Sutlej
The Sutlej (in Sanskrit सुटुद्रि or Sutudri , in punjabi ਸਤਲੁਜ, Urdu ستلج or Satluj), is longest of the 5 rivers which cross the Indian province of the Penjab to the north of the India. It has its source in Tibet close to the mount Kailash and finishes its race in the Pakistani Penjab. In India it receives the river Beas, then continues its race towards the Pakistan or it receives water of the Chenab; it then becomes the Panjnad which is thrown in the Indus with Mithankot.
The river was called Shatadru or Sutudri by the Indians at the time Védique, Zaradros or Hesidros by the Greek S and Sydrus by the Romain S. It is also called currently Satlej or Langchen Khabab.
Water of the river is allocated in India according to the Traité water of Indus signed between India and Pakistan. Today the majority of water are diverted in canals irrigation and are used by India. The Barrage Bhakra-Nangal is a gigantic work answering multiple finalities.
There is unquestionable evidence that before 1 700 av J.C the river was an affluent of the river Sarasvati and not of Indus. It is thought that the displacement of the plates Tectonique S.A. created a relief which deviated since the course of Sutlej of south-east in south-west. The thin river Sarasvati then started to be drained involving the turning into a desert of the Cholistan and the Sindh as well as the abandonment of many often old human installations located on its banks.
Along the river civilization Zhang Zhung developed formerly. The ruins of the capital Khyunglung Ngülkhar - the money palate of the valley of Garuda - is on the higher course of the river in the current district of Kinnaur of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India.
A channel is in the course of construction between Sutlej and the river Yamuna. This channel is indicated by the acronym SLY (Sutlej-Yamuna bond).
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