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The Helmand rises in the Hindu Kush , some 50 km to the west of Kabul , flows roughly south-west for about 1130 km, and empties into the Seistan swamps, the Hamun Lake Hamun-i-Helmand , around Zabol at the Iran-Afghan border. The ancient overland route from the lower Indus River ( Sind ) followed this river passing by Kandahar to southern Persia and the Persian Gulf . The hot, steamy conditions in the Helmand Valley were well suited for the breeding of Elephants , the ancient equivalent of tanks. The Helmand has been suggested as a possible identity of the Vedic Saraswati River . REFERENCES
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