Is there a City of Atlantis? Any previous link with Sindhu culture?

Ancient origins are one such chapters of the history that are opened again and again over times. Many excavations have been followed in terms of the city Atlantis. What remains the most striking point is the similarity of ideas with the Sindhu Culture. Though numerous researches have been followed in this regard still Atlantis remains a forgotten chapter of the history. So let’s open this long lost chapter!!

Atlantis: Atlantis is basically an underwater kingdom which was very advanced., It’s a likely mythical island nation mentioned in Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias, has been an object of fascination among western philosophers and historians for nearly 2,400 years. Plato (c.424–328 B.C.) describes it as a powerful and advanced kingdom that sank, in a night and a day, into the ocean around 9,600 B.C. The ancient Greeks were divided as to whether Plato’s story was to be taken as history or mere metaphor. Since the 19th century there has been renewed interest in linking Plato’s Atlantis to historical locations, most commonly the Greek island of Santorini, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption around 1,600 B. Plato’s Critias says he heard the story of Atlantis from his grandfather, who had heard it from the Athenian statesman Solon (300 years before Plato’s time), who had learned it from an Egyptian priest, who said it had happened 9,000 years before that. Whether or not Plato believed his own story, his intent in telling it seems to have been to boost his ideas of an ideal society, using stories of ancient victory and calamity to call to mind more recent events such as the Trojan War or Athens’ disastrous invasion of Sicily in 413 B.C. The historicity of Plato’s tale was controversial in ancient times his follower Crantor is said to have believed it, while Strabo writing a few centuries later records Aristotle’s joke about Plato’s ability to conjure nations out of thin air and then destroy them. In the first centuries of the Christian era, Aristotle was taken at his word and Atlantis was little discussed. In 1627, the English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon published a utopian novel titled The New Atlantis, depicting, like Plato before him, a politically and scientifically advanced society on a previously unknown oceanic island. In 1882, former U.S. Congressman Ignatious L. Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which touched off a frenzy of works attempting to locate and learn from a historical Atlantis. Donnelly hypothesized an advanced civilization whose immigrants had populated much of ancient Europe, Africa and the Americas, and whose heroes had inspired Greek, Hindu and Scandinavian mythology. Donnelley’s theories were popularized and elaborated by turn-of-the-20th-century theosophists and are often incorporated into contemporary New Age beliefs. From time to time, archaeologists and historians locate evidence a swampy, prehistoric city in coastal Spain; a suspicious undersea rock formation in the Bahamas that might be a source of the Atlantis story. Of these, the site with the widest acceptance is the Greek island of Santorini ancient Thera, a half-submerged caldera created by the massive second-millennium-B.C. volcanic eruption whose tsunami may have hastened the collapse of the Minoan civilization on Crete.

The concept of Kushasthali: In the Sindhu Culture, a similar concept of underwater kingdom is mentioned in the Mahabharata. King Kukudmini was the ruler of the underwater kingdom and it was a very prosperous empire. Even in some texts Dwarka is often referred as Kushasthali which Lord Krishna submerged underwater to save it. It’s often called the submerged kingdom. It is described as very civilized and advanced much like Atlantis. Recent Excavations have unearthed the whole kingdom of Dwarka which proofs that once their actually existed an underwater kingdom. With respect to this, many scientists and oceanographers have suggested that such kingdoms are likely to be formed in future as well. Humans will become so advanced that they will start living in space and also underwater. Well we all know that time is a never ending cycle. Time rap is an essential phenomenon and past will come back in future as well. The concept of Atlantis is not new and it stretches across all Cultures. In Harivamsa, Dvaraka is described as largely built on submerged land, released by the ocean. It was built by Vishwakarman in one day mentally. During 1983-1990, the Marine Archaeology Unit of India’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) carried out underwater excavations Dwarka Dwarka According to S.R Rao,  The available archaeological evidence from onshore and offshore excavations confirms the existence of a city-state with a couple of satellite towns in 1500 B.C. He considered it reasonable to conclude that this submerged city is the Dvaraka as described in the Mahabharata. In the Mousala Pourva of the Mahabharata, Arjuna witnesses the submergence of Dvaraka and describes as, The sea, which had been beating against the shores, suddenly broke the boundary that was 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. Dvaraka was just a name; just a memory.

The concept of Nagas: In the Sindhu Culture, another underwater concept of a serpentine race exists. The Nagas were a advanced race of snakes having many extraordinary qualities. They were more advanced than the humans and often referred as demigods. They stayed underwater in Naglok which was a very beautiful place. They lived deep in the ocean. Sesha Naga is one of the most important of this race and is worshipped as a God. According to legends, he holds up the earth on his head beneath the sea. He forms the bed of Lord Vishnu. So this is also similar to Atlantis which was equally very divine and beautiful. Even in our folklores we have mention of mermaids who live underwater and have their own kingdom.

So all the ancient concepts have a common root. Atlantis and Kushasthali were perhaps same!! Who knows?!! And definitely the discovery of Atlantis will create a budge in the scientific World. So let’s hope for its soon unearthing.