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Until the unearthing of Dwarka, the submerged city, archaeologists believed civilization in India dated back to 3,000 to 6,000 years. But findings from the sunken bed of the Gulf of Cambay push this age back to 9,000 to 15,000 years ago – millenniums before the birth of Christ. This submerged city is one of the dearest mysteries of marine archaeologists around the world, and a fable that verifies the epic of Mahabharata.

Dwarka: Lord Krishna’s mighty kingdom
According to the epic of Mahabharata, Krishna established his mighty kingdom off the coast of Gujarat to escape endless deaths and battles between him and Jarasandh (in Mathura). The city had 900,000 royal palaces made of silver, embedded with emeralds and many crystals. Connected by an elaborate network of boulevards, markets and temples, Dwarka was evolved in its design and architecture unlike any other construction of the age.
In 1988, the Marine Archaeological Unit of India started underwater excavations around the area of Lothal, the port centre of Harappan civilization. The team led by archaeologist S.R. Rao had been finding artifacts and pottery predating the Indus valley civilization around the area. This is why they decided to pursue the search of the sunken city of Dwarka.

The discoveries from 1988 yielded more artifacts, jewelry, and broken structures that were over 3,500 years old. But the most definitive findings were done by accident by a group of students at the Gulf of Cambay. Some 70-feet below sea-level they found sandstone walls, grids of streets, extremely large pieces of rock once part of structures and copper coins dating back to 9,500 years ago.
Discoveries by the Archaeological Survey of India not only proved that the mythic city of Dwarka was real but also contested the age of civilization in India which according to western archaeologists was only 3,500 years old. Dwarka not only adds age to Indian civilization but also proves that Mahabharata was not a fabled story.
According to research, a catastrophe swallowed the city whole approximately 3,500 years ago. Therefore, sinking it to the bottom of the ocean. Archaeologists gave 3 possible reasons for its destruction:

A shift in the level of the seabed
An earthquake or tsunami
Sudden rise in the sea-level
It was revealed that given the condition in which buildings were discovered, it couldn’t have been a tsunami/earthquake. In the case of the rise of sea-level, it is possible since a similar phenomenon had occurred in Bahrain at the same time. This is supported by the fact that there was a busy network of trade between the coastal town of Lothal (near Dwarka) and Bahrain.

Where is Dwarka?
Dwarka is situated 32km from the iconic Shiva temple, Somnath, in Gujarat – earlier known as Saurashtra.

It is said that Lord Krishna killed his maternal uncle Kamsa and made his grandfather Ugrasen king of Mathura. Kamsa’s father in law Jarasandh (king of Magadh) attacked Mathura 17 times. To save his people, Krishna and the Yadavas decided to move the capital from Mathura to Dwarka.

After Krishna was killed near Dwarka (there is a temple where he died) the major Yadava heads fought among themselves and killed each other. Dwarka was known as Swarna Dwarka and a prosperous port city in those days. The Dwarkadheesh temple facing the sea is the abode of Lord Krishna. Vishnu Purnana states that on the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark bodied Kali Yug descended. The oceans rose and submerged the entire Dwarka. It is also believed that due to damage and destruction by the sea, Dwarka has been submerged six times and the modern Dwarka is the seventh avatar of the city.
Dwarka has commanded much attraction because the site is one of the four Dhamas (sacred place for pilgrimage) of the Hindu religion. As the legend goes, Krishna founded the city in Gujarat’s west coast.
The modern city of Dwarka, which in Sanskrit means ‘Gateway to heaven’, is located north-west of the state.

Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 m (120 ft) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 years old. It is believed to predate the oldest known remains in the subcontinent by more than 5,000 years. Carbon dating on debris recovered from the site, including construction material, pottery, sections of walls, beads, sculpture and human bones and teeth, put it at nearly 9,500 years old, making it older than the Sumerian civilisation by several thousand years. It is also older than the Egyptian and Chinese civilisations.

Dwarka is mentioned in a number of texts, including the Mahabharata, the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, the Harivamsha as well as the Skanda Purana, and the Vishnu Purana.