Dwarka and the Mahabharata

Author: Arvind Gupta



Trinshatsu Trisahasreshu Bhaaratdahavaditaha
Saptabda Shatayukteshu Gateshwabdeshu Panchasu
Panchashatasu Kalaukale Shatasu Panchashatsu Cha
Samatsu Samatitasu Shakaanamapi Bhoobhujaam
The poem inscribed is:

The verses has been interpreted by considering the clauses of the poetise. It says "3030 eld from the Bharat War" in the low finish, (Trinshatsu Trisahasreshu Bhaaratdahavaditaha) where the basic subdivision of the declare ends. In the back route, the sec clause starts and runs up to the middle of the gear stemma thusly (Saptabda.....Kalaukale) this substance 700+5+50 = 755 years passed in the Kali Era. It is trenchant from the onetime assignation of the pen that 3030 years passed from the Bharat War and 755 life passed from Kali Era. Kali Era started from 3101 BC. 755 ages bonk passed.

The Grecian Embassador Magasthenis has filmed that 138 generations bang passed between Avatar and Chandragupta Maurya. Umpteen scholars jazz assumed this evidence, but taking exclusive 20 eld per beginning them rigid the fellow of Avatar as 2760 period before Chandragupta. But this is immoral because the tape is not of mediocre grouping to tolerate 20 years per propagation. In the affair of systemic unrestricted, one says that when a son is innate a new reproduction starts. But in the covering of kings, the calumny is included in the leaning of Royal somebody to gestate out the fair per monarch by calculative on varied Indian Dynasties. I change wise 60 kings from varied dynasties and measured the medium of each vocaliser as 35 ages. Here is a table of few of eminent kings with the no. of age judgments.

Chandragupta Mourya 330-298 B.C. 32 geezerhood.
Bindusar 298-273 B.C. 25 eld.
Ashok 273-232 B.C. 41 period.
Pushyamitra Shunga 190-149 B.C. 41 years.
Chandragupta Gupta 308-330 A.D. 22 age.
Samudragupta 330-375 A.D. 45 geezerhood.
Vikramaditya 375-414 A.D. 39 period.
Kumargupta 414-455 A.D. 41 period.
Harsha 606-647 A.D. 41 age.
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327 age.

The average is 327/9 = 36.3 life.

Multiplying 138 generations by 35 ages we get 4830 geezerhood before Chandragupta Mourya. Adding Chandrgupta’s familiar 320 B.C. to 4830 we get 5150 B.C. as the see of Noble Avatar.

Magasthenis, according to Arian, has statute that between Sandrocotus to Dianisaum 153 generations and 6042 period passed. From this aggregation, we get the cypher of 39.5 years per vocalist. From this we can figure 5451 life for 138 generations. So Krishna must somebody been around 5771 B.C.

Pliny gives 154 generations and 6451 life between Bacchus and Vanquisher. This Bacchus may be the famous Bakasura who was killed by Bhimasena. This punctuation comes to about 6771 life B.C.

Thusly Mahabharata point ranges from 5000 B.C. to 6000 B.C. and Dwarka fits into this scenario utterly.

Mahabharata mentions the ancient practice as 'Shravanadini Nakshatrani', i.e., Shravan Nakshatra was acknowledged the archetypical locate in the Nakshatra- pedal Vishwamitra started numeration the Nakshatras from Shravan when he created 'Prati Srushti'. He was provoked with the old customs. So he started any new customs. Before Vishvamitra’s measure Nakshatras were counted from the one which was engaged by the sun on the Immature Equinox. Vishvamitra denaturised this vogue and victimized diagonally opposite disc i.e. Autumnal Equinox to recite the Nakshtras. He gave archetypical area to Shravan which was at the Autumnal Equinox then. The phase of Shravan Nakshatra on autumnal equinox is from 6920 to 7880 age B.C. This was Vishvamitra's period at the end of Treta Yuga. Mahabharata War took property at the end of Dwapar Yuga. Subtracting the movement of Dwapar Yuga of 2400 eld we get 7880 - 2400 = 5480 B.C. as the familiar of Mahabharata War.

Newly Dr. S.B. Rao, Old Person of the Federal Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, 403004, has observed low the sea, Dwarka and dated it as between 5000 to 6000 BC. This tiding has been published by all the directing newspapers on 22nd Oct 1988.

Umpteen activity of the Vedic and Puranic tradition comprise a spare limit of clues in the alter of physics observations which can be utilized to make the close as sort of Mahabharata and thusly institute the arts credibleness of the events described in this eager heroic. Notable among this activity are the Parashar Sanghita, the Bhagvat Puran, Shakalya Sanghita, and the Mahabharata itself. Aryabhatta, one of the leading mathematicians and astronomers of India in the ordinal century AD, examined the astronomical evidence described in the Mahabharata in his uppercase create acknowledged as the "Aryabhattiya". According to the positions of the planets filmed in the Mahabharata, its rough engagement was measured by Aryabhatta to be 3100 BC implying that the uppercase war described in the Mahabharata was fought some 5000 age ago, as most Hindus make e'er believed.

A find of Nation scholars of the 19th century, especially Friedrich Max Philologue, proved to reiterate these galactic grounds to corroborate that the observations prerecorded in Hindustani scriptures are unreal. As an amateur stargazer, I suggest to see the galactic inform presented in the Bhagvat Puran and Max Mathematician's disapproval of this inform in morals of the advances made in astronomy in the historical banknote geezerhood. Max Anatomist, in the prolusion to his translation of the Rig Veda, examines the galactic observations described in the Bhagvat Puran and concludes that these observations are "imagined", ostensibly because they did not concord with the current views of the Dweller, primarily Nation, Indologists of the ordinal century around the measure of the Mahabharata.

Carl Segan, a renowned astronomer at Actress Lincoln, who hosted the world telecasting program "Cosmos" in 1985, ensiform out that Hindus were the exclusive ones who came anywhere encompassing to aright estimating the sincere age of the content. Dissimilar galore ethnic traditions which deal bailiwick and faith as different to apiece new, the Hindu practice encourages the meditate of physics and metaphysics both for a comparative knowing of the harmonious nature of the cosmic whodunit close and pervading the existence.

Everything almost the Mahabharata is immense, from its sprawl length, to the enormous dimension of its exteroception. The long of all epics is same an encyclopedia, a man all on its own. At its set is the omnipotent and spinning prevarication of the Pandava and Kaurava cousins who ultimately oppose the largest war of all, Kurukshetra. But that is not all; the Mahabharata is brimful of mythological stories, vast time spans of chronicle, careful geography and a massive body of unworldly teachings.

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Dwarka and the Mahabharata

Author: Arvind Gupta


Avatar chose a remote location, far beyond the reach of Jarasandh. He picked away Dwarka on the western seacoast of India, far from Mathura, and spent a year swing his plans into proceedings. He built on the hollow remains of an old demesne, Kushasthali, which itself was collective on older ruins, all underwater. Krishna saved 100 miles of elevation from the sea and titled in Vishwakarman, the architect of the gods to change him a city that was the enviousness of the concern.

The Mahabharata and the Bhagwat Puran and different texts, inform the wonders of Dwarka. The most expensive and voluptuous materials were utilized. In those days of unbelievable riches, it was quite vernacular to use artful stones, gilded and trophy as artefact real. House and flush nobles invariably victimised golden, those who could not open it used silvery or alloy.

Dwarka was a city of rosaceous and gold. The palaces and many of the mansions were collective of golden, over which ping lotus domes towered, lidded by soaring auspicious spires. The floors were prefab of emeralds. Loved stones studded the walls and crystallization arches snakelike overhead, inlaid with metallic. The houses were beautifully decorated and sculptures decked the walls. Smooth the cowsheds were prefabricated of palm, monument and hamper.

Seen in this pleasing illustration is baronage Avatar forthcoming to the island city of dwarka.

Dwarka was a very advantageously formed municipality, masses the highly formulated bailiwick of town mentation. The designer, Vishwakarman, freshman function out the highways, lanes, entrepreneur and parks. He sectioned off plots and branched the metropolis into six zones, residential and advertisement. He projected out the left and created the bridges and gateways and the fortifications. Everything was ordered out in crew before the thinking began.

Same umpteen kingdoms of the minute Dwarka had a characteristic system. Its citizens were issued with a politico bluejacket which had to be presented when they entered or leftmost the large gates. The laurels of Dwarka was a mythical terzetto headlike dog and seals matching the statement know been found in the subsurface ruins today.

In the Publisher The Asian dated 23 Feb 2007 an article was publicised which I multiply here vervatim." Metropolis: Ancient structural remains of whatever substance hold been revealed at Dwaraka, low installation and on arena, by the Underwater Archaeology Airfoil (UAW) of the Anthropology Looking of Bharat (ASI). Alok Tripathi, Superintending Anthropologist, UAW, said the ancient underwater structures institute in the Arabian Sea were yet to be identified. "We hit to conceive out what they are. They are fragments. I would not like to meet them a protect or a temple. They are location of any scheme," said Dr. Tripathi, himself a disciplined adventurer.

Xxx sepia coins were also institute in the site expanse. The structures constitute on land belonged to the nonmodern point. "We somebody also pioneer 30 copper coins. We are improvement them. After we eat cleaning them, we can render their assort," he said.

Dwaraka is a inshore townsfolk in Jamnagar district of Gujarat. Traditionally, moderne Dwaraka is identified with Dvaraka or Dvaravati, mentioned in the Mahabharatam as Krishna's metropolis. Dwaraka was a opening, and any scholars change identified it with the island of Barka mentioned in the Periplus of Erythrean Sea. Ancient Dwaraka sank in sea and thus is an central archeologic parcel." My intent is not to go in the treatment of how the port went low the sea but the fact is that this metropolis is now some low irrigate of the Peninsula sea whatever 135 feet beneath element. This city has been mentioned in the Mahabharata and that this city has been found, dated, and mapped. The likely comrade of this city is between 9500 to 7500 years before mouth which present put it as 7500 to 5500 period BC.

Mahabharata was not a fictional poem but a reality is also observable from the complex of numerous scholars who bed through extensive create in this region, and by deed all the facts together what comes out of the intact is the fact that the near most direct dates of the statesman happenings in the epos has also been identified. This at smallest proves that the Vedic civilisation is a some older phenomenon than perceived by numerous sandwich scholars exchequer date.

There is a striking writing which has been open in the Religion Temple at Aihole braced by one Chalukya Singer Pulakeshi. It says, according to scholars, that the temple was constructed in 30+3000+700+5 = 3735 life, after the Bharat War and 50+6+500 = 556 geezerhood of Shaka era in Kali era. Today Shaka era is 1910. Thence 1910- 556 = 1354 years ago the tabernacle was constructed. Thusly the year of inscribing this say is 634 AD. At this example 3735 age had passed from the Bharat War. So the date of the War comes to 3101 BC. This is also the appointment of Kali Yuga Graduation. Naturally, it is observable that relying on the point of Kaliyuga Era and retentive that the War took localize honorable before the point of Kaliyuga.

Dwarka and the Mahabharata

Author: Arvind Gupta


Every Amerindian, either living in India or living exterior India, knows near the two epics that dominates the Amerindian psyche and the spirit of the terra firma. These epics are the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The Mahabharata has exercised a persisting and pervasive touch on the Amerindian mind for millennia. The Mahabharata, originally inscribed by Salvia Ved Vyas in Sanskrit, has been translated and adapted into numerous languages and has been set to a variety of interpretations. Dating rearward to "unlikely oldness", it is plant an extant move in the life of the Soldier masses. With author than 74,000 verses, retentive prose passages, and some 1.8 cardinal texts in gross, the Mahabharata is one of the longest epos poems in the domain. The Mahabharata has a whole length of author than 90,000 verses.

Everything about the Mahabharata is vast, from its extended length, to the large breadth of its vision. The longest of all epics is equivalent an cyclopedia, a humans all on its own. At its nucleus is the strong and agitated tale of the Pandava and Kaurava cousins who finally advertise the superior war of all, Kurukshetra. But that is not all; the Mahabharata is complete of mythical stories, vast reading spans of account, elaborated geographics and a monolithic body of sacred teachings.

The author of the monolithic heroic is Rishi Vyas, who, according to the matter itself, spent figure life creating it, rising every period, and working on it every day. His abode was Vyas Gufa, a explore tall in the Chain, which is solace visited today by travelers on their way to Mansarovar.

In Mahabharata Musal Parva, the Dwarka is mentioned as state gradually swallowed by the ocean. Krishna had forewarned the residents of Dwarka to abandon the city before the sea underwater it. The Sabha Parva gives a elaborated declare of Avatar's embellish from Mathura with his masses to Dwaraka to dodging unceasing attacks of Jarasandh's on Mathura and reserve the lives of its subjects. For this ground, Avatar is also celebrated as RANCHHOR (one who runs gone from the battle-field). Dr. SR Rao and his team in 1984-88 (Leatherneck Anthropology Organization) undertook a comprehensive activity of this municipality along the coast of Gujarat where the Dwarikadeesh temple stands now, and finally they succeeded in unearthing the ruins of this underwater metropolis off the State coast.

The foremost archaeological excavations at Dwarka were done by the Deccan College, Pune and the Section of Archaeology, Government of State, in 1963 low the substance of H.D. Sankalia. It revealed artifacts galore centuries old.

Marine Anthropology Object (MAU) jointly by the Mortal Create of Oceanography and the Archaeological Sight of Bharat. Low the message of Dr. Rao, a enthusiastic leatherneck anthropologist, a group consisting of practiced underwater explorers, trained diver-photographers and archaeologists was botuliform. The model of geophysical scrutiny was hyphenated with the use of echo-sounders, mud-penetrators, sub-bottom profilers and underwater metal detectors. This squad carried out 12 man archeological expeditions between 1983 to 1992 and articles and antiquities recovered were transmitted to Energetic Search Laboratory for dating. By using thermo-luminescence, copy dating and opposite contemporary technological techniques, the artifacts were saved to belong to the phase between 15th to 18th century B.C. In his major transform, The Damned Port of Dwarka, Dr. Rao has assumption technological information of these discoveries and artifacts.

Between 1983 to 1990, the well-fortified township of Dwarka was observed, extending author than half knot from the shore. The township was stacked in six sectors along the banks of a river. The support of boulders on which the municipality's walls were erected proves that the elevation was saved from the sea. The unspecialized layout of the metropolis of Dwarka described in ancient texts agrees with that of the submersed municipality revealed by the MAU.

The ASI conducted a support shape of excavations in 1979 low S.R. Rao's message. He open a definite clayware identified as lustrous red ware, which could be statesman than 3,000 ages old. Supported on the results of these excavations, the hunting for the drowned port in the Mount Sea began in 1981. Scientists and archaeologists hump continually worked on the parcel for 20 years.

The UAW began excavations at Dwarka again from Jan 2007. Dr. Tripathi said: "To take the antiquity of the computer in a holistic form, excavations are beingness conducted simultaneously both on field [fine to the Dwarakadhish tabernacle] and subsurface so that finds from both the places can be co-related and analyzed scientifically."

The lens of the excavation is to know the oldness of the position, based on material information. In the offshore dig, the ASI's trained underwater archaeologists and the different of the Navy searched the submerged structural remains. The finds were studied and referenced.

On arrive, the dig is existence done in the forecourt of the Dwarakadhish temple. Students from Gwalior, Metropolis, Pune, Vadodara, Varanasi and Bikaner are helping ASI archaeologists. In the forecourt, old structures including a bill one mortal been launch. A slender store of 30 metal coins was revealed.

"Within the departed few months, the engineers began few dredging operations there and they pulled up manlike fossil clappers, fossil conductor, kill tools, pieces of pottery and umpteen added things that indicated that it indeed was a hominid habitation parcel that they had. And they were fit to do author modifier sonar work there and were competent to set much structures. They appeared to mortal been laid out on the cant of a river that had been travel from the Soldier subcontinent out into that expanse. ( That river was the unreal saraswati river ) According to the interestingness releases, they eff done a carbon testing on a instance of club from the underwater place that is now relinquishment an age of 9,500 geezerhood which would area it left the end of the net Joshi ( Murli Manohar Joshi was the Soldier Minister for Ocean Bailiwick then ). Mahabharata was then a realism and it was not a faucet and rescript account concocted by Ved Vyas.

Ved Vyas also described the city of Dwarka in enthusiastic details. The poets described Dwarka as a city so metallic that it drops its glowing on the ocean for miles around it. Dwar way door, and Dwarka is a municipality of many doors or a gateway. It was an island, engaged to the mainland by galore bridges, and legend says that Krishna asked Vishwakarman, the designer of the gods to flesh him a municipality many beautiful than any before it.