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Dwarka, Krishna's City

Submerged structures · 2 to 12 m, Off Dwarka, Gujarat, India
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Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

Dwarka, Krishna's City: still unexplained.

Stone anchors and walls where scripture says a god's city drowned

The law of this ground: Archaeological Survey of India waters, diving by arrangement with authorized operators; artifacts may not be disturbed.
The subject
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The manifest
Stone anchors and walls where scripture says a god's city drowned
The account

The Mahabharata says that when Krishna left the earth, the sea swallowed his golden city of Dwarka in a single day. Off the modern temple town, marine archaeologists have mapped walls, bastions, and a harbour's worth of stone anchors. How old, and whose, is fought over fiercely, but something built lies under that water, exactly where the oldest story in India says a city went down.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Dwarka, Gujarat, India.
  • What you are chasing is Stone anchors and walls where scripture says a god's city drowned. Work the documented record of Dwarka, Krishna's City back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
  • Archaeological Survey of India waters, diving by arrangement with authorized operators; artifacts may not be disturbed.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Dwarka, Gujarat, India.
  • What you are chasing is Stone anchors and walls where scripture says a god's city drowned. Work the documented record of Dwarka, Krishna's City back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
  • Archaeological Survey of India waters, diving by arrangement with authorized operators; artifacts may not be disturbed.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 22.236°, 68.963° (approx.) View on the Map