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5 unusual facts about Dvaraka


Dvārakā

Dr. D.P. Agrawal, chairman of the Paleoclimate Group and founder of Carbon-14 testing facilities in India stated in an article in Frontline Magazine that the piece was dated twice, at separate laboratories.

Ramdevji

The priest of the temple, considering the king to be mad, asked the king to go to the mystic Dwarika to speak to the Lord.

The mystic Dwarika swallowed by the sea many centuries ago, lay at the bed of the Arabian sea.

Sudama

Sudama (सुदामा) (also known as Kuchela, mostly in South India) was a childhood friend of Hindu deity Krishna from Mathura, the story of whose visit to Dwaraka to meet Krishna, is mentioned in the Bhagavata Purana.

Thirumoozhikkulam Lakshmana Perumal Temple

Another belief is that the end of the Dvapara Yuga, Dvaraka was swallowed by the sea and four idols of Sreerama, Bharatha, Lakshmana and Shathrukhna which Lord Sree Krishna was worshiped, were sink on sea.


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Bhilwara

When Arjuna was going to Dwarika with all Gopis during Mahabharata period, he was passing through the present Bhilwara region.


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