Indraprastha_by_nicholasgwee
Posted on 02/12/2020 10:51:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Excavations in search of the lost city have been carried out on this site since the 1950s... prompted when researchers found a link between Purana Qila and one of India's most important texts, the Mahabharata.
This epic poem, about 100,000 verses long, is believed to have been written more than 2,400 years ago. It is hotly debated which parts of the text are based on fact and which elements are fictional. But it is considered to offer many reliable insights into this period of Indian history, including details on the city of Indraprastha and clues to its possible location.
Mahabharata is about the Kauravas and the Pandavas, two groups of relatives engaged in a long conflict with each other. It refers to Indraprastha as a major city that was the capital of the Pandava Kingdom from about 1400 BC. Indraprastha is considered to have been the first significant settlement in the Delhi area, which has since hosted a succession of kingdoms and giant civilisations. At some point, Indraprastha fell from grace, either conquered or abandoned. The ASI believes that Purana Qila may have been built on top of these ruins.
The mystery surrounding the lost city makes my visit to Purana Qila even more engrossing. It is already, at surface level, an extraordinary place. While New Delhi's Red Fort gets all the attention, and is swarmed by tourists, the comparatively overlooked Purana Qila is equally interesting. Built in the 1540s as the hub of a burgeoning city created by the Mughal Emperor Humayun, it was the site of a sequence of battles in the 16th century.
Fortunately this red sandstone complex remains in fine condition, decorated by three enormous and magnificent gates, called Humayun Darwaza, Bara Darwaza and Talaqi Darwaza.
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Indraprastha_by_nicholasgwee
well where did you see it last?
It will always be in the last place you look.
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Hindus called Delhi “Indraprastha”. Lots of information at Wikipedia.
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by Vashi Sharma (Author)
A few months back I read an English version of the Mahabharata. It’s a story about an epic battle between 2 related families (cousins). In the end, a great battle takes place where 1.66 billion warriors and their families are killed (incinerated) by something called an Astra at Kurukshetra. Only about a dozen people survive the battle. Queer thing is that the description of the missile deployed, killed both sides and the fireball was like 10,000 suns. And if that doesn’t sound like a nuke then there’s the fact that if researchers go to Kurukshetra they find that the ground was once turned to glass and there’s still low levels of radiation and the typical fallout elements in the soil.
*spoiler warning?
Capulets and the Montagues.......Hatfields and McCoys......................
Heh, I think I left it in my other pants. From the sound of the story, muzzie cutthroats buried and/or reused the ruins to build the fort just a few hundred years ago. The utter disappearance of "legendary" places mitigates IMO against the supposed great longevity of folkloric traditions in India.
The Mahabharata would be more interesting if one of the family heads had struck oil on his estate, sold out for billions, and moved to Beverly Hills.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kurukshetra
Ancient Atomic Warfare - Religious texts and geological evidence
New York Herald Tribune on February 16, 1947 | New York Herald Tribune on February 16, 1947 | Ivan T. Sanderson
Posted on 07/22/2002 2:01:00 PM PDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/720501/posts
“Queer thing is that the description of the missile deployed, killed both sides and the fireball was like 10,000 suns. And if that doesn’t sound like a nuke then there’s the fact that if researchers go to Kurukshetra they find that the ground was once turned to glass and there’s still low levels of radiation and the typical fallout elements in the soil.”
Or it could be a description of a meteor or comet crashing into the city. There is a lot of glassified material surrounding meteor impact sites. (Berringer crater, Tunguska event...)
If a nuke the either advanced aliens or time travel or advanced nuclear technology 2500+ years before Fermi which was never shared or passed down. Interesting fiction but Occam’s razor and history support extra terrestrial material reentry! (Yes, I support E.T. material reentry!! :)
They probably made their dough in ‘Wheel Futures’...................
Total sidebar, from deep in the FRchives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1493781/posts?page=9#9
The first 'tablet computer'...............
:^) Yup, but instead of binary, it used base 1000.
Many, many years ago, before the advent of the Internet, I read story about these clay tablets.
Seems that they are ubiquitous throughout the Middle East, found on the sides of roads and trash heaps.
Nobody knew what they were until the mid 1800’s when the cuneiform writings were finally deciphered.
The vast majority of them were TAX records..............
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