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The river was known to Indians in Vedic period as ''Asikani'' or ''Iskmati'' and as ''Acesines'' to the Ancient Greeks . In 325 BC , Alexander The Great allegedly founded the town of Alexandria on Indus (present day Uch Sharif or Mithankot or Chacharan) at the confluence of the Indus and the combined stream of Punjab rivers (currently known as the Panjnad River ). The Chenab has the same place in the consciousness of the people of the Punjab, as, say the Rhine holds for the Germans, or the Danube for the Austrians and the Hungarians. It is the iconic river around which Punjabi consciousness revolves, and plays a prominent part in the tale of Heer Ranjha , the Punjabi national epic. |
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