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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Bhor Saidan
| other_name = Bhour Saidan and Bhoor Saiydan
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| settlement_type = village
| image_skyline = [[File:Marsh Crocodiles basking in the sun.JPG|250px|center]]
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| image_caption = Crocodiles Sanctuary At Bhor Saidan
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Haryana]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Kurukshetra district]]
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| established_date = [[Vedic period]] ( c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE)

| founder = [[Bhurishravas|Bhurisrava]] ([[Kaurava]] hero)

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The '''Bhor Saidan''', formerly also spelled '''Bhour Saidan''' and '''Bhoor Saiydan''', is a village located 22 km from [[Kurukshetra]] and 13 km west of [[Thanesar]] on the Kurukshetra-Pehowa road near Bhureeshwar Temple,<ref>{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105200932/http://www.kurukshetra.nic.in/tour/Religious/tirath/Kurukshetra/022-bhurisarva/index.htm|url=http://www.kurukshetra.nic.in/tour/Religious/tirath/Kurukshetra/022-bhurisarva/index.htm|title=Bhurishrava Tirtha Bhorsaidan|archive-date=2014-11-05|website=[[Kurukshetra]] District}}</ref> one of the pilgrimage sites on the river bed of now extinct [[Sarasvati River]]<ref name=saras1>{{Cite news |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/saraswati-research-centre-yet-to-come-up-at-ku/410636.html |date=2017-05-22 |first=Vishal |last=Joshi |title=Saraswati research centre yet to come up at KU |newspaper=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |access-date=2019-11-06 |archive-date=12 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912011425/http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/saraswati-research-centre-yet-to-come-up-at-ku/410636.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=saras2>{{Cite web|date=2007-02-11 |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070211/haryana.htm#5 |title=Experts for work on Saraswati river project |newspaper=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]] |access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref> in [[Kurukshetra]] in the Indian state of [[Haryana]].<ref name="2011 Census">{{cite web |title=Bhor Saidan |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=65288 |website=[[2011 Census of India]] |publisher=[[Government of India]] |accessdate=14 October 2017 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20171014215601/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=65288 |archivedate=14 October 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name=kruk1/> It is also the location of [[Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra]].

==Etymology==
''Bhor Saidan'' village was named after [[Kaurava]] hero [[Bhurishravas|Bhurisrava]] of [[Mahabharta]], son of Somadutta the king of [[Vaishali (ancient city)|Vaishali]].<ref name="Bhor">{{Cite web|date=2008-02-06|url=http://sarasvati97.blogspot.com/2008/02/vedic-saravati-channel-at-bhor-sayidan.html|title=Vedic Saravati channel at Bhorsaidon and Reborn Sarasvati, Rajasthan|website=Sarasvati blog|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref><ref name=kruk1>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kurukshetra.nic.in/tour/Archeologysite/bhor.htm |title=Bhor Saidan on Kurukshetra's official website |access-date=22 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912011402/http://www.kurukshetra.nic.in/tour/Archeologysite/bhor.htm |archive-date=12 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Bhor Saidan Archeology mound==
''Bhor Saidan'' sits on an ancient archeological mound,<ref name=kruk1/> on the banks of dried up river bed of [[Sarasvati River]] that dried up due to the [[Plate tectonics|movement of tectonic plates]]. Curator Archaeologist of [[Shrikrishna Museum]] in Kurushketra, Rajesh Purohit, discovered [[Painted Grey Ware culture]] (1200 BCE to 600 BCE)) pottery from the [[Vedic period]] of [[Mahabharata]].<ref name=saras1/>

Chairman of [[Kurukshetra University]]'s geology department, Rk Chaudhari, who collaborated with [[Oil and Natural Gas Corporation]] in 2006 to conducted a study of Bhor Saidan's course of Sarasvati river, explains that the [[Sediment|sedimentary samples]] from Bhor Saidan and other sites along the Sarwasati river were similar to with those found in the upper [[Himalaya]]s.<ref name=archbhor1>{{Cite web|first=Vishal|last=Joshi|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/haryana-plans-to-flow-water-in-ancient-saraswati-riverbed/story-GqtOf1pEITRZmtoX0fuG0I.html|title=Haryana plans to flow water in ancient Saraswati riverbed|date=2015-03-31|website=[[Hindustan Times]]|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref> [[Government of Haryana]] is working on implementing the plan to make the Sarasvati river flow again, by diverting the water from the [[Somb river]], along Sarasvati river's ancient route from [[Adi Badri (Haryana)]], where the river emerges from Himalayas, to [[Pehowa]] via Bhor Saidan.<ref name=archbhor1/>

=={{anchor|Bhor Saidan Tirath |Bhureeshwar Tirth}} Bhurishrava Tirtha ==
'''Bhor Saidan Tirath''' with '''Bhurirava kund''' (pond named after [[Bhurishravas|Bhurisrava]]) who was killed by the [[Satyaki]] in [[Mahabharata]] war, is an ancient [[Tirtha (Hinduism)|Tirth]] (sacred place) within [[48 kos parikrama of Kurukshetra]] pilgrimage circuit of [[Hindu]] tirths.<ref name=kruk1/><ref name=saras1/>

==Crocodiles Sanctuary At Bhor Saidan==
[[File:Mugger crocodile Crocodylus palustris (2155269175).jpg|thumb|Mugger crocodile]]
[[Crocodile Breeding Centre, Kurukshetra]] origin lies in the fact that [[Mugger crocodile]]s are believed to have been brought by one of the [[Mahant]]s of the nearby temple of the ''Bhor Saidan Tirath'' in the 1930s. In 1980, [[Forests Department, Haryana]] took over the breeding centre and the Bhor Saidan village [[Panchayati raj in India|panchayat]] gave 15+ acre land to the [[Government of Haryana]] to start the breeding centre.<ref>{{Cite report|first1=Akhilesh|last1=Kumar|first2=Sandeep|last2=Kumar|first3=Yasmin Fatima|last3=Zaidi|first4=Amita|last4=Kanaujia|url=http://www.upsbdb.org/pdf/Souvenir2012/ch-16.pdf|title=A Review on Status and Conservation of Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in India|pages=141–148|publisher=Uttar Pradesh State Biodiversity Board|work=Marine Biodiversity: One Ocean – Many worlds of life|date=2012-05-22|access-date=22 May 2017|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212500/http://www.upsbdb.org/pdf/Souvenir2012/ch-16.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Periphery has been fenced and a mound inside the pond was created to watch the crocodiles from the close range.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://revenueharyana.gov.in/html/gazeteers/kurukshetra_2009/Chapter_I.pdf |title=Revenue Department of Haryana Govt Gazetteers of Kurukshetra 2009: Chapter I |access-date=22 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090027/http://revenueharyana.gov.in/html/gazeteers/kurukshetra_2009/Chapter_I.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Demography==
As per the [[2011 Census of India]], the village has a population of 2289; 1234 males and 1055 females in 422 families, with a literacy rate of 71.15%, 78.63% literate male and 62.72% literate female.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/58461-bhor-saidan-haryana.html|title=Bhor Saidan Village Population - Pehowa - Kurukshetra, Haryana|website=Population Census 2011|access-date=2019-11-06}}</ref>

==External links==
* [http://kurukshetra.nic.in Official website of Kurukshetra]
* [http://www.thedivineindia.com/kurukshetra/5900 Kurukshetra in thedivineindia.com]

==See also==
* [[Crocodiles in India]]

==References==
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{{Mahabharata}}
{{Hindu holy cities}}
{{Hindu temples in Haryana}}
{{Indus Valley Civilization}}
{{Haryana}}

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[[Category:Indus Valley Civilisation sites]]
[[Category:Tourism in Haryana]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites in Haryana]]
[[Category:Villages in Kurukshetra district]]
[[Category:Mahabharata]]
[[Category:Hindu pilgrimage sites in India]]
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