Kaithal district
Kaithal district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, a state in northern India. Kaithal town is the district headquarters.
History
This district came into existence on 1 November 1989.Theh Polar archaeological site
Theh Polar, the ancient site from the vedic period of mahabharta, is located on the banks of Saraswati river 10 km north of Kaithal on Kaithal-Siwan road. Pulastya rishi - one of the ten Prajapati and one of the mind-born sons of Brahma and also an ancestor ofRavana, had his ashram here. The name Theh Polar is composite of Polar - corrupted version of rishi Pulastya and Theh meaning the ruined mound of an earlier habitation. The archaeological cultural artifacts found here in the partial excavation provide the evidence that this site has been inhabited for at least 3000 years since the beginning of 1st millennium BC up to the early Mughal period.
There are 3 large archaeological mounds, 2 are 480x635x15.5 ft and third is 779x690x10 ft. In 1933-34, these mounds were partially excavated by H.L. Srivastava who found 465 artifacts including coins, clay seals, beads, pottery, copper vessels, etc. Earlier era punch-marked silver coins have symbols of sun, six-armed Sahasrara chakra, hills with 3 peaks. Coins of Yaudheya, Indo-Parthian, Kushan Empire, Kidara, Indo-Sassanian, Hindu Shahis coins of the bull and
horseman, early Mughal period copper and silver coins. The archaeological mounds at Theh Polar, 48.31 acre in size, were excavated on very small scale in 1930s, 1960, and 2013 respective, with earlier layer likely dating back to 1500-900 BCE. 1960 excavation found Painted [Grey Ware culture] associated with mahabharta era. 2013 excavation found pottery, including flowerpots, toys and bricks, from Kushan Empire era.
Mounds are owned and designated as protected site by [Archaeological Survey of India], but highly encroached by the villagers, and efforts are on at least since 2007 to have those vacated but with no success, the site does not even have a fence.