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Pakistani Hindus celebrate Krishna's birthday

No mate, i may criticize you, your country and it's policies but never the religion....... albeit not a religious person but i know for a fact that Islam preaches you to practice your own religion and respect other's..... hence i have posted in past about Guru Nanak and Christmas festivities in Pakistan.

Bas Kar Pagley......ab rulayega kya...... :cray: :cray:

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Can't Convince you........but his town of Dwarka was recently found underwater.........
Would like to see some link. Some poster was talking about carbon dating of bells from this place just last night. I could not dissuade him. He kept telling me (an engineer) that I do not understand science.
 
Would like to see some link. Some poster was talking about carbon dating of bells from this place just last night. I could not dissuade him. He kept telling me (an engineer) that I do not understand science.

Here you go. Found off the coast of Gujarat. Was a big story some 13-14 yrs ago when I was a kid.

Submerged Cities: 7 Underwater Wonders of the World | Urbanist
"The ruins, discovered in 2000 and investigated with acoustic techniques, are known as the Gulf of Khambat Cultural Complex. They’re 131 feet beneath the surface. One of the artifacts dredged up by scientists was dated around 7500 BCE, which could support the theories that it is, in fact, the ancient Dwarka."
 
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Here you go. Found off the coast of Gujarat. Was a big story some 13-14 yrs ago when I was a kid.

Submerged Cities: 7 Underwater Wonders of the World | Urbanist
"The ruins, discovered in 2000 and investigated with acoustic techniques, are known as the Gulf of Khambat Cultural Complex. They’re 131 feet beneath the surface. One of the artifacts dredged up by scientists was dated around 7500 BCE, which could support the theories that it is, in fact, the ancient Dwarka."

From the same website:

"Believed to have been submerged off the coast of Greece by a series of earthquakes around 1,000 BCE, Pavlopetri is the oldest-known underwater archaeological town site in the world. Unlike other underwater ruins, which are incomplete or difficult to verify as actual man-made structures, Pavlopetri has a complete town plan, including streets, architecture and tombs. It consists of about 15 structures, submerged about 10-13 feet underwater."

There needs to be more evidence to substantiate claims of Dwarka. I am not saying that it is not so, but claims are claims, just like Lahore being founded by son of Lord Ram.
 
Would like to see some link. Some poster was talking about carbon dating of bells from this place just last night. I could not dissuade him. He kept telling me (an engineer) that I do not understand science.
National Institute Of Oceanography( NIO ) - Application of geological and geophysical methods in marine archaeology and underwater explorations : Gujarat

Dwarka in Gujarat, one of the important religious places for Hindus, attracts tourists from all over the world due to the fabulous architectural planning of the Dwarkadhish temple. According to scriptures the town was associated with Lord Krishna and it was submerged soon after his departure to his heavenly abode. Pargiter (1904 & 1922), a noted historian, was the first to suggest that Dwarka was located near the Raivataka mountain and he has also mentioned that it was constructed on the remains of Kusasthali. Pusalkar (1943 & 1945) has even accepted that modern Dwarka was the original Dwarka of the Mahabharata period. However, many scholars have claimed different places in Gajarat as the original Dwarka.

Offshore exploration of Dwarka, initiated in 1982, has resulted in recovery of a large number of dressed semicircular and rectangular stone blocks and structures. Blocks of these have an L-shape cut, in addition to a provision for dowels. A few still retain the hard cementing material that had bounded them. These structures have 2 to 3 courses with a 60 to 80 cm height. The average size of a block is 95 × 55 × 25 cm. A large number of rectangular blocks of various sizes are also scattered in a large area in the vicinity and are evidently part of a single structure. These blocks are lying on a rocky seabed and a few of them are buried in sand.

A few structures can also be noticed in a channel on the northern side of this zone. Exposed portions of the blocks are covered with a thick growth of seaweeds and a pinkish layer of marine growth. Among the important findings is a rectangular stone block bearing Gujarati scripts, which suggests that the structure may not be very old.

Among 75 stone anchors found in the area, 34 composite stone anchors have a circular upper hole and two lower holes are square or rectangular. The other types include Indo-Arabian and ring stone anchors. These are mostly made of limestone and very similar to those found in Oman, East African coastal countries, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala and Minicoy in context of early to late medieval period.

Evidently, Dwarka was a very active port town during medieval period. The dates of these anchors are assigned between 10th and 14th century AD.

The underwater explorations have not yielded any artefacts which can be dated scientifically to conclude the date of Dwarka with Lord Krishna and to associate the findings with the Mahabharata period.


READ THIS PAPER
http://www.iisc.ernet.in/currsci/may102004/1256.pdf
An ancient harbour at Dwarka: Study based on the recent underwater explorations
 

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