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Yes, because we are a hybrid civilisational culture. Not just one book, but a library, we can understand the geography, and handle oral traditions like heirlooms of responsibility.  You asked me explicit questions about oral traditions, I answered them directly, and now you’re running away from data.  Yesterday you said I was being too sarcastic and ‘throwing a tantrum’, and didn’t know what a lecture was. You completely ignored the core point: the Vedas describe a massive, roaring river (naditame) exactly where archaeology finds thousands of Harappan sites clustered along the dried-up Ghagger-Hakra bed. That is physical, geographical data - not just ‘tradition’.  Rig Veda RV 2.41.16: अम्बितमे नदीतमे देवितमे सरस्वति । अप्रशस्ता इव स्मसि प्रशस्तिमम्ब नस्कृधि ॥ Ambitame nadītame devitame sarasvati | apraśastā iva smasi praśastim amba nas kṛdhi ॥ ‘Best of mothers, best of rivers, best of goddesses, Sarasvātī! We are, as it were, of no repute; dear mother, give us high renown.’ There are other verses in this sacred text to tell us about the Sarasvati too.  If you can’t explain how an oral tradition perfectly preserved the exact landscape memory of the Harappan heartland, just say so.  Deflecting won’t change the geography.  You will now have to figure out and have to explain how a massive river and a massive civilisation ended up occupying the exact same space described by the oral tradition.  The Vedas were unscripted for thousands of years prior to being a written sacred text in its original language, for it to then evolve for you to understand it (I’m assuming you’ve read the Vedas?) in English, unless you’ve understood it in its original form.  For example, where we say ‘nadītame’ in the verse above, it doesn’t just translate to the English word ‘river’ directly.  It comes from the root word ‘nad’, which means ‘to roar’, ‘to sound’, or ‘to vibrate’.  A nadī is not just a body of flowing water; it is a ‘roaring, resonant force’.  When paired with the superlative -tame, it means the absolute loudest, most roaring, and dominant force on the landscape. Sanskrit therefore encourages a philosophical outlook to each word.  You should understand by now why your flat data-driven, evidence-based approach is too small for this vastness of a civilisation.  This was one verse, and one word, that had to be taken to its root in a language which was spoken way before it was written.

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