{"id":33832,"date":"2022-11-27T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T04:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=33832"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:38:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T00:38:26","slug":"archaeological-excavations-prove-veracity-of-mahabharata-war-around-3100-bce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/archaeological-excavations-prove-veracity-of-mahabharata-war-around-3100-bce\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological Excavations prove veracity of Mahabharata War around 3100 BCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archaeological Excavations prove veracity of Mahabharata War around 3100 BCE<\/h2>\n
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Kurukshetra is the place where the epic Mahabharata war fought for 18 days, more than 5000 years ago.
\nBhagavadgeetha describes Kurukshetra as \u2018Dharmakshetra<\/em>\u2018 \u2013 a place where \u2018Dharma<\/em>\u2018 is restored.
\nThe location of the battle was Kurukshetra in the modern state of Haryana in India.
\nThe battle was fought for throne of Hastinapur, which is now located between Meerut and Mawana in uttar Pradesh and is now a forgotten village, but excavations in 1952, revealed the existence of vidurka \u2013 tilla (vidura\u2019s palace), Draupadi \u2013 ki \u2013 rasoi (Draupadi\u2019s Kitchen) and Draupadi Ghat, along with copper utensils, iron seals, Ornaments made of gold and silver, terracotta discs and several oblong shaped ivory dice used in the game of chauper (ancient game in which Duryodhana, with help of his maternal uncle Sakuni, defeated Yudhishtir and sent his brothers along with Draupadi to forest exile for 13 years).
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Hastinapur\u2019s Sankrit name suggests that it embodies the might of elephants (Hasti = Elephant).
\nHastinapur is styled around the elephant motif, a fortified, heavy ominous dark stoned capital.<\/p>\n

In archaeological excavations around hastinapur, about 135 iron objects which included arrow and spearheads, shafts, tongs, hooks, axes, and knives were found, which indicate the existence of a vigorous iron industry.
\nThere are indications of brick \u2013 lined roads and drainage systems, and an agro \u2013 livestock based economy. The painted grey ware (PGW) of Hastinapura has been assigned to 2800 BCE and beyond.<\/p>\n

Based on astronomy of Saptarishi Mandal (they align in same nakshatra\/constellation every 100 years), kurukshetra war dates back to 3138 BCE.
\nAncient Indian Almanacs (Panchangs) have been mentioning Salivahana Saka and Vikramarka Saka(calendar) and also mention the year Jaya Nama Samvatsara (2014-15) as Kaliyuga\u2019s 5116.
\nSo, its been 5115 years since the death of Lord Krishna and if we subtract 2014 from it, its 3101 BCE when Krishna left this planet and 36 years prior to that, Kurukshetra war was fought.
\nThese calculations are based on mentionings in Mahabharata.
\nKrishna was 90 years old during war time and his life ended at the age of 126 years.
\nYudhishtir and Bheema were elder than Krishna, Arjuna was of same age, Nakul and Sahadev were younger.
\nThis is mentioned in a scene where Pandavas are about to leave for forest exile, Krishna bows to Elder two brothers, hugs middle brother Arjuna and blesses the younger two.<\/p>\n

According to the Matsya and vayu puranas a heavy flood on the river Ganga destroyed Hastinapur<\/em> and Nichakshu, the fifth king after parikshit (Arjuna\u2019s grand son) who ascended the throne after kurukshetra war, shifted his capital to kausambi<\/em>, 50 kilomters from prayagraj<\/em>.
\nEvidence of devastation by the Ganga is still visible in the thick clay soil.<\/p>\n

Excavations in Kurukshetra, now in Haryana, yielded iron arrow and spearheads dated by Thermoluminence Test to 3100 BCE.<\/p>\n

Sage Veda Vyas also mentions in Mahabharata about usage of atomic weapons from both sides killing millions of soldiers and kings within 18 days.
\nPresent excavations at kurukshetra find that the stones at that place were exposed to radioactive energy thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeological Excavations prove veracity of Mahabharata War around 3100 BCE \u00a0 Kurukshetra is the place where the epic Mahabharata war fought for 18 days, more than 5000 years ago. Bhagavadgeetha describes Kurukshetra as \u2018Dharmakshetra\u2018 \u2013 a … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area2","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 09:26:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}