Country India Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) ISO 3166 code ISO 3166-2:IN | Notified 29 July 1988 Elevation 215 m | |
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Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary (Hindi: सरस्वती वन्य अभ्यारण), also known as Seonsar Forest (Hindi: सोनसर जंगल), is situated in Kaithal district of Haryana State, India. It is spread over an area of 4452.85 hectares.
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Kalesar National Park, Morni Hills and Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary are respectively first, second and third largest forest in Haryana.
Location
It is 10 km away from Pehowa, 40 km from Kurukshetra, 60 km from Kaithal on the Pehowa-Cheeka-Patiala Road, 62 km from Patiala, 66 km from Ambala, 108 km from Chandigarh, 150 km from Hisar, 67 km from Karnal, 200 km from Delhi.
It is only nearly 30 km from Bir Gurdialpura Wildlife Sanctuary in Patiala district of Punjab.
History
Saraswati Plantation was notified as Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary on 29 July 1988.
Archaeological remains
The Tribune reported on 9 April 2016 that Mahant and members of a dera of Nath yogis in the sanctuary found the ancient rectangular bricks from a 15 feet deep structure after an old banyan tree was uprooted. According to Rajendra Singh Rana, curator of Kurukshetra’s Srikrishna Museum, prima facie these bricks and structure appears to be older than 1500 years old as square bricks are associated with 1,500 years old Gupta period (320 CE to 550 CE) and these bricks are likely to be even older from the Kushan (30 CE to 375 CE) period as the Sarasvati river use to flow here.
There is also a 40 years old Water well made of small lakhauri bricks associated with the Mughal empire era.