Prachi River

The Prachi, a small river[1] of over 60 km in length with a catchment area of around 600 km2, a part of the Mahanadi River Delta in Odisha[2] along the eastern coast of India is an important topographical as well as cultural landscape. Presently the parts of the modern day districts of Puri, Khurda, Cuttack and Jagatsingpur comprise the Prachi valley region.

A map of the Mahanadi-Koyakhai distributary system

The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has discovered pottery pieces, and tools made of stones and bones believed to be of the pre-Christian era from a mound in Jalalpur village of Cuttack district, Odisha. Discoveries of ancient artefacts indicated that a rural settlement might have thrived in that period. These settlements could have had cultural and trade ties with other settlements in the Prachi Valley that had come up around the Prachi river, which gradually disappeared. Prachi Valley civilisation[3] is believed to be earlier than that of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro flourished on the banks of Prachi river. Prachi Valley civilisation has contributed a lot towards amalgamation, assimilation and proliferation of different religious faiths and cults.

References
  1. Nihar Ranjan Patnaik (1997). Economic History of Orissa. Indus Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 978-81-7387-075-0.
  2. "Odisha Government Portal". Odisha.gov.in. Archived from the original on 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
  3. "Archaeological Vestiges of Monasteries in the Prachi Valley, Odisha" (PDF). Magazines.odisha.gov.in. Retrieved 14 December 2018.

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