Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary


Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary, also known as Seonsar Forest, is situated in Kaithal district of Haryana State, India. It is spread over an area of.
Kalesar National Park, Morni Hills and Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary are respectively first, second and third largest forest in Haryana.

Location

It is away from Pehowa, from Kurukshetra, from Kaithal on the Pehowa-Cheeka-Patiala Road, from Patiala, from Ambala, from Chandigarh, from Hisar, from Karnal, from Delhi.
It is only nearly 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

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 and these bricks are likely to be even older from the Kushan 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.