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.