Zakuska Posted October 13, 2011 Posted October 13, 2011 (edited) Once upon a time in a land far far away there was a wise magi named Krishna who built a city with streets of Gold and walls of Silver... A Library of great knowledge... and beautiful gardens of luxury and pleasure...Characteristics of the CityThe city was built by Vishwakarma on the order of Lord Krishna. Land was reclaimed from the sea near the western shores of Saurashtra. A city was planned and built here. Dwarka was a planned city, on the banks of Gomati River. This city was also known as Dvaramati, Dvaravati and Kushsthali. It had six well-organized sectors, residential and commercial zones, wide roads, plazas, palaces and many public utilities. A hall called "Sudharma Sabha" was built to hold public meetings. The city also boasted having the possession of a good sea harbour. The city had 700,000 palaces made of gold, silver and other precious stones. Each one of Lord Krishna's 16108 wives had her own palace. Besides this, the city had beautiful gardens filled with flowers of all seasons and beautiful lakes.Submersion into the SeaAfter Krishna left the earth for Vaikunta,about 36 years after the Mahabharat War (3138 BC), and the major Yadava leaders were killed in disputes among themselves, Arjuna went to Dwarka to bring Krishna's grandsons and the Yadava wives to Hastinapur, to safety. After Arjuna left Dwarka, it was submerged into the sea. Following is the account given by Arjuna, found in the Mahabharata:...imposed on it by nature. The sea rushed into the city. It coursed through the streets of the beautiful city. The sea covered up everything in the city. I saw the beautiful buildings becoming submerged one by one. In a matter of a few moments it was all over. The sea had now become as placid as a lake. There was no trace of the city. Dwaraka was just a name; just a memory.The Vishnu Purana also mentions the submersion of Dwarka, statingOn the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended. The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwarka.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DwarkaThe city lay hidden in it's watery grave, for millenia. And the story of Krinshna and his city were obscurered in the anals of time, finally being relegated to the trash heep of myth, legend, fairy tail and alegory.But then one day...Recent archeological findingsOn May 19, 2001, India's science and technology minister Murli Manohar Joshi announced the finding of ruins in the Gulf of Khambhat. The ruins, known as the Gulf of Khambhat Cultural Complex (GKCC), are located on the seabed of a nine-kilometer stretch off the coast of Gujarat province at a depth of about 40 m. The site was discovered by a team from the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in December 2000 and investigated for six months with acoustic techniques.A follow up investigation was conducted by the same institute in November 2001, which included dredging to recover artifacts. A round of further underwater explorations was made in the Gulf of Khambhat site by the NIOT team from 2003 to 2004, and the samples obtained of what was presumed to be pottery were sent to laboratories in Oxford, UK and Hannover, Germany, as well as several institutions within India, to be dated.The sunken city is once again found, the Mahabruata is proven beyond doubt to be an actual Historic document and not myth or legend, the world rejoices and Billions of people from other faiths such as Evangelical Christianity, and Islam, and even some atheists covert to Hinduism and live happily ever after.</sarcasm>WOW! 16108 wives?! And people think David and Solomon were bad?! :: Edited October 13, 2011 by Zakuska
Maidservant Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 WOW! 16108 wives?! And people think David and Solomon were bad?! ::I wouldn't mind having a palace. I'm not sure what your point is here, but are you mocking Hinduism and historical basis of Hinduism? Why would you do that?The gospel can be found in all religions. What is found in other truth systems can open our eyes to understand what it is we have in our hands in the new and everlasting covenant.
boblloyd91 Posted October 14, 2011 Posted October 14, 2011 I think they meant it in the context of relying upon archeological evidence as proof of a certain belief system.
Zakuska Posted October 14, 2011 Author Posted October 14, 2011 I think they meant it in the context of relying upon archeological evidence as proof of a certain belief system.Bingo. Its the old... They found Troy by following the Iliad so does that make Zues God? Christian apologists respond by saying... "well the Iliad was written as fiction"But, Here we have them following Hindu Scripture that Evangelical Christians mock, to find a sunken city. So the question is... does Archeology prove truth claims?
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