Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are investigating the site, where a housing development was being built.
For some time it has been established that there is a very high rate of birth defects and cancer in the area under construction. The levels of radiation there have registered so high on investigators’ gauges that the Indian government has now cordoned off the region. Scientists have unearthed an ancient city where evidence shows an atomic blast dating back thousands of years, from 8,000 to 12,000 years, destroyed most of the buildings and probably a half-million people. One researcher estimates that the nuclear bomb used was about the size of the ones dropped on Japan in 1945.
The Mahabharata clearly describes a catastrophic blast that rocked the continent.
“A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe… An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor… It was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race. The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white. After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river.”
Archaeological Site of Mohenjo Daro
A Historian Comments
Historian K. Ganguli says that Indian sacred writings are full of such descriptions, which sound like an atomic blast as experienced in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He says references mention fighting sky chariots and final weapons. An ancient battle is described in the Drona Parva, a section of the Mahabharata.
“The passage tells of combat where explosions of final weapons decimate entire armies, causing crowds of warriors with steeds and elephants and weapons to be carried away as if they were dry leaves of trees,” says Ganguli.
“Instead of mushroom clouds, the writer describes a perpendicular explosion with its billowing smoke clouds as consecutive openings of giant parasols. There are comments about the contamination of food and people’s hair falling out.”
Archaeological Site of Mohenjo Daro
Archeological Investigation provides information
Archeologist Francis Taylor says that etchings in some nearby temples he has managed to translate suggest that they prayed to be spared from the great light that was coming to lay ruin to the city.
“It’s so mid-boggling to imagine that some civilization had nuclear technology before we did. The radioactive ash adds credibility to the ancient Indian records that describe atomic warfare.”
Construction has halted while the five member team conducts the investigation. The foreman of the project is Lee Hundley, who pioneered the investigation after the high level of radiation was discovered.
There is evidence that the Rama empire (now India) was devastated by nuclear war. The Indus valley is now the Thar desert, and the site of the radioactive ash found west of Jodhpur is around there.
Consider these verses from the ancient Mahabharata:
…a single projectile
Charged with all the power of the Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame
As bright as the thousand suns
Rose in all its splendour…
a perpendicular explosion
with its billowing smoke clouds…
…the cloud of smoke
rising after its first explosion
formed into expanding round circles
like the opening of giant parasols…
..it was an unknown weapon,
An iron thunderbolt,
A gigantic messenger of death,
Which reduced to ashes
The entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
…The corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognisable.
The hair and nails fell out;
Pottery broke without apparent cause,
And the birds turned white.
After a few hours
All foodstuffs were infected…
…to escape from this fire
The soldiers threw themselves in streams
To wash themselves and their equipment.
Until the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, modern mankind could not imagine any weapon as horrible and devastating as those described in the ancient Indian texts. Yet they very accurately described the effects of an atomic explosion. Radioactive poisoning will make hair and nails fall out. Immersing oneself in water gives some respite, though it is not a cure.
When excavations of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro reached the street level, they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had taken place. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city. And these skeletons are thousands of years old, even by traditional archaeological standards. What could cause such a thing? Why did the bodies not decay or get eaten by wild animals? Furthermore, there is no apparent cause of a physically violent death.
Skeletons found at Mohenjo Daro scattered in the street.
These skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on par with those at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At one site, Soviet scholars found a skeleton which had a radioactive level 50 times greater than normal. Other cities have been found in northern India that show indications of explosions of great magnitude. One such city, found between the Ganges and the mountains of Rajmahal, seems to have been subjected to intense heat. Huge masses of walls and foundations of the ancient city are fused together, literally vitrified! And since there is no indication of a volcanic eruption at Mohenjo-Daro or at the other cities, the intense heat to melt clay vessels can only be explained by an atomic blast or some other unknown weapon. The cities were wiped out entirely.
While the skeletons have been carbon-dated to 2500 BC, we must keep in mind that carbon-dating involves measuring the amount of radiation left. When atomic explosions are involved, that makes then seem much younger.
Interestingly, Manhattan Project chief scientist Dr J. Robert Oppenheimer was known to be familiar with ancient Sanskrit literature. In an interview conducted after he watched the first atomic test, he quoted from the Bhagavad Gita:
“‘Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.’ I suppose we all felt that way.”
When asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have literally been vitrified, that is, fused together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.”
Giant Unexplained Crater Near Bombay
Another curious sign of an ancient nuclear war in India is a giant crater near Bombay. The nearly circular 2,154-metre-diameter Lonar crater, located 400 kilometres northeast of Bombay and aged at less than 50,000 years old, could be related to nuclear warfare of antiquity.
No trace of any meteoric material, etc., has been found at the site or in the vicinity, and this is the world’s only known “impact” crater in basalt. Indications of great shock (from a pressure exceeding 600,000 atmospheres) and intense, abrupt heat (indicated by basalt glass spherules) can be ascertained from the site. David Hatcher Childress in Nexus Magazine:
“The crater is formed in the basalt rock of thickness 600-700m (2,000 to 2,200 feet). This rock is made of many layers or flows which were laid why volcanic activity at various times, five of such flows are exposed at the crater rim. Thickness of these flows ranges from 5 to 30m.”
“The crater is about 150m (500 feet)deep and has average diameter of 1830m (1.4 miles). The elevated rim consists of 25m of bedrock and 5m of ejecta over it. This ejecta blanket is spread over about 1350m (4,400 feet) away from the crater rim and slopes away by 2-6°. The uppermost region of ejecta contains the deposits that were melted due to the impact”.
Aerial photograph of the Lonar Crater.
Lonar is a place of obscurities, especially as the only meteoric crater formed in basaltic terrain. It has remained relatively intact due to low degree of erosion by environmental agents, making it an excellent model for study. However, several strange things happen here:
1. The lake has two distinct regions that never mix — an outer neutral (pH7) and an inner alkaline (pH11) each with its own flora and fauna. You can actually do a litmus paper test here and check this for yourself.
2. There is a perennial stream feeding the lake with water but there seems to be no apparent outlet for the lake’s water. And it is also a big unsolved mystery where the water for the perennial stream comes from, in a relatively dry region like Buldhana. Even in the driest months of May and June, the stream is perpetually flowing. Lonar generates questions and more questions.
Very Interesting!
Please refer to this article about Lonar Crater in Wikipedia for more understanding.
Well, my world is altered forever.
Yes i have watched a short program on this , and your still photographs are excellent. there is so much mystical., so very much deeply authentic history here
This is a pure fiction. The Indian Government carried on atomic tests in that region, in a place called Pokhran. One in 1974 and seven in 1993. And the entire region became contaminated. To cover this up, the Indian Government (then led by pro Hindutva BJP, like now) created the rumor that the radiation effect was several thousand years old, dating back to Mahabharat, while in fact the radiation was because of the atomic tests. Several women have had miscarriages, and babies have born with disabilities…The food and crops in that region have become poisonous…And the India Government has cleverly covered this up, blaming on Lord Shri Krishna and Kurukshetra war….And the pro Hindutva propaganda is spreading this rumor to safeguard the honor of the Sangh Parivar Government…..At least the right thinking Hindus should not encourage this blatant use of religion for government cover up.
Nice Article. The previous ‘yuga’ surely had a lot of technology. As said in the scriptures Yugas ascend and descend. These events were perhaps from the last descending Dwapar yuga just before the start of the kali yuga. Swami Yukteshwar Giri has said in his ‘Holy Science’ that the descending dwapar yuga was followed by kali yuga, which ended in 1800AD. We are now in the ascending dwapar yuga and will invent technology at about the same level as available during the descending dwapar yuga.. Interesting how the universe functions. There are cycles in every aspect of the universe’s function.
This is one more natural mysteries the Science may find an answer at a later date, since, prior to 1945 none had any inkling about the atomic weapons.
Mr. Manjunath, in 1974 and in 1993 there was congress government and not BJP. Everyone should praise HINDUISM because it is greatest.
if ancient india technology is restored,india will b superpower in the world ,with technologies like vaimanika sastra,space travel etc…and also can withstand any type of natural disasters as well,only hinduism has this power
I would appreciate if every article of India Divine give reliable source links with the articles and photographs and/ or mention from which book/ periodicals have they been taken. That will give credence to the articles.
your explanation appears more likely to be the case.
Mr, Manjunath,
Present researchers are competent enough to ascertain whether the radiations relate to explosions taken place a few years back or thousands of years back. Moreover the skeletons found are not 20 years old.
Given a date of between 8000-12,000 years ago, it certainly provides “motivation” for the Indus Valley agri-culturists to spread in a circle out of Rajastan. Whatever caused that crater shook all of Bharata.
Given a date of between 8000-12,000 years ago, it certainly provides “motivation” for the Indus Valley agri-culturists to spread in a circle out of Rajastan. Whatever caused that crater shook all of Bharata.
Recall: this is the exact time folks in Gobkli Tepe near Lake Van, Anatolia. BURIED their temples under tons and tons of soil. Why would they do that? Speculation is a cosmic death event.
I’ve always felt Rajastan populated Egypt and Thailand, and now DNA studies prove 9000 years ago was when “M.E.” agri-culturists migrated to all parts of Europe. Again, a big boom like that certainly encourages migration away.
This may have been a celestial event. Oppenheimer referred to Scotland having similar melted “glassified” rocks, and geologist Robert Schoch attributes it to a deadly celestial event occuring as we pass through certain “hazardous regions of the Universe” while our Solar System hurdles through space. “Precession.” Hindus label them “Ages”, correctly in my opinion.
Also, there is that region in Siberia where they literally found miles of large wild fauna “Freeze-Dried” with unchewed food still in their mouths: death to mammoths, sabertooth tigers, oxen…miles of them instantly dead. I think dated to @ 15,000 years ago. Millions of creatures instantly snuffed.
Schoch says it starts out looking like a faint blue light on the horizon…”CMEs” I believe the events are known as.
Great photos and article, thanks.
According to the greatest English translator and authorized scholar of Transcendental Vedic Records and Purposes, including Mahabharat and especially the Srimad Bhagavatam, His Divine Grace Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, there was an attempt of Aswathama to kill the unborn son of Prince Abimanu, grandson of Pandava Sri Arjuna, in the womb by a Brahmastra, a kind of weapon given by the God, Lord Brahma, an atomic weapon-but not like current atomic weapons which are unleashed on the civilian populations, these vastly superior weapons would be directed at a specific target and they could usually be sent out as well as withdrawn by will. Warriors of ancient India did not wage war against the non-warrior class. The child, saved by Lord Krishna’s expanding Himself and covering His small body within the womb, was later known as Parikshit Maharaja. He was the last great king of Bharat before the advent of Kaliyuga. This occurred specifically 5000 years ago. Whoever has written the poem mentions the soldiers being killed by atomic blast which reduced the race to ashes. Sounds like fiction because according to reliable accounts, the great heros on the battlefield were killed individually in combat over 18 days, using various weapons of various Demigods. By the end of the battle, the five Pandava brothers and Lord Krishna remained. Also, please consider that the pastimes of Lord Ramachandra took place 3 million years ago, so pulling Him into it is pure speculation. Hare Krishna.
This period matches with the period in the Bible old testament, When All mighty God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah due the sin of the people in those cities, God would have done the same thing to other cities who were living in gross sin like Sodom & Gomorrah,
The destruction was same as what is explained in this article at those two cities.
(Book of Geneses 19 : 24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.)
Martin Waduge
Mr.Manjunath, before giving a political shift to this findings, you may get in touch with the concerned Archeologists and ascertain the facts.
Joseph Manjunath feels threatened his cult will vanish, leaving aside thatold timers in Tanjore dt of TN used to say some germans came to Tanjore’s saraswathi Mahal Library in the 30’s and took away lot of old manuscripts with them and soon you saw germans producing all kinds of weapons during the 2nd world war.They could have found out about atomic weapons too!. I remember reading a book in the Kurseong Municpal Library in the 70’s about the Tibetan Book wherein it was said the Tibetans had some very strange weapons one was the Kal Chakra which could be manufactured by individuals too to destroy their enemies (the reasons why the Chinks could never capture Tibet). The misuse became so rampant it seems the then Dalai Lama ordered the drawings to be destroyed and the Tbetans in 1949 regretted why they ever did it as otherwise they would have destroyed the Chinks when they invaded. Commie lumpens like Joseph Manjunath and cassocked cultists apart the general Indian public believe such weapons did exist.
Our own people are against our glory!! There are enough evidences to prove the value of Hinduism and the scientific development achieved by our ancestors centuries back which is still not achieved with all the technological development of today.
Can someone give some links providing such details so that people like Manjunath may, if they are open minded, get educated?
Correct me if wrong, but were not the Harappa and Mohenjodaro excavations taken up around the 1920s… In British India, by thier archeos… (Harappa in late 1870s) thats around 50 years before our Govt. did any kind of atomic tests… a century after the first Harappan seal was dug out of the ground… Were not the artifacts and remains photgraphed then…, if carbon dating has been done, it is on these very remains that were dug up way back then… in Brit India…
And I don’t think we as a country have the wherewithal for that kind of a cover-up…
not in a bi-polar cold-war world of the 70s…
not in the 90s when the US had a free channel in our neighbour who screems for world attention even if we sneeze hard at the borders…
and moreover not atleast on an archological site that borders two countries…
Its Quite Interesting!!!
There are mentions of various powerful Astras in Mahabharata War ; whether the war was fought somewhere here ? Mr Manjunatha’s comment that these must be because of our testing of AtomBombs in that area ; may not be correct as there is no explanation of the corpses . Also modern technology can provide he exact date of these happenings . This may also be because of some bombardment of atomic bombs from extraterrestrials ? Lonar Crater may be some natural disaster ? More questions than answers after reading the article !
In this thought provoking article you mention (1) Francis Talyor, an archaeologist, studied etchings on temple walls nearby, which provide a hint of an impending nuclear disaster; (2) The Rama empire (now India) was devastated by a nuclear war. Can you provide references to these two observations?
Very informative article.
@ all those who do not agree with the article
Those who do not have glory in their own faith and religion have a narrower vision.
As a Hindu and as an Indian, I feel really proud
Thanks for the Indiadivine.org for sharing true historical incidents
We need more like this..
Interesting article and comments. As a fourth generation of totally westernised Indians, I have a dream. That similar articles, but more substantiated, will inspire Indians of India to bring to the world stage irrevocable evidence of the superiority of all manners of ancient Vedic sciences (including sports!). For now, most Indians are, it seems, misguided by deep sentimentalism, nationalism and temple rituals. Surely there is more to the Vedas than this. If you hold that the ancient Vedas are true, get out there and prove it! (and stopped blaming the British for the present condition of India.)
There were great weapons in ramayana and Mahabharata times which doesn’t exist till now. they are very powerful than todays nuclear and atomic bombs.
absolutely right ,agreed
Very interesting indeed. It stands to reason that the area where an atomic blast took place would then become a desert. In this case, the Thar desert. I have also read that in those ancient times, radioactive weapons ( astras) were used and tested in areas which were unpopulated and far away from the population of then India. As I read, such an area was known at that time as an Astra-alay and such an island, far away from then India where such atomic tests took place, laid vast areas of that island waste and became large deserts. The speculation made by the author was that Australia ( astra-alay) was apparently such a testing ground for these kinds of weapons. I would be interested in learning more if anybody has any knowledge of this hypothesis.
Read Eric Von Daniken – Chariot of the Gods
Excavations are true or fiction, but during Maha bhaarata war Brahmastra was used by Ashwattama. In olden days during ‘Sandhyavanada’ brahmins were to give ‘Arghya’ water, three times, uttering ‘Brahmaastra’; Brahadandaastra’ and brahmaseershstra’ mantras. There are scriptures giving details of these mantras. Nowadays. brahmins, are impure by their conduct, hence they dont have mantra siddhi. However, practices were their about ‘Astra Pryogas’ in ancient days.
Mr. Manjunath Rao… When atomic test (like in Pokhran) is conducted, it will be done in a controlled environment. They dont let the entire state(s) to contaminate & if it is so, the whole population would’ve been affected severely. Secondly, the modern technology is competitive enough to estimate the time of the event happened and it can be challenged by all the scientists across the globe if there is anything wrong with the measurements.
Hence, stop peddling nonsense with your left(ist) mind & people who think with right mind will adjudge about the above article with their intellectual & discretionary powers.
Read the lost book of enki chapter 12 and 13, wherein it describes the animosity between Inanna (the goddess given ruleship over the indus valley about 5000 years ago) and Marduk (the ruler of sumer and precursor to the pharoahs). The crater here sounds like the crater which is found at marduks unauthorized skyport; the fallout from that nuclear blast wiped out sumer.
Maybe some great scholar will soon unify all the worlds true history instead of just focusing on their own personal religion and trying to prove that their civilization is the oldest. Maybe Hebrew scholars like sitchin are dismissed by hindus either from ignorance or denial. But isn’t it evedient that the pyramids and the Sumerian ruins are much more advanced than these brick cities? It also mentions that Inanna had cities made of clay bricks…
check it out and stop being so biased. we are all on one planet which was entirely submerged 5000 years ago.
I was also confused when I read this article at first. However note that this atomic bomb or whatever ashtra/shashtra was used 36 years after the 18 days Mahabharat yudh. It was the Iron bolt mentioned in the Mausal parv in Mahabharata. It exterminated the Yadu vansh/dynasty of Lord Krishna/Balram. This was the curse of Gandhari to Lord Krishna after she lost her 100 sons in the Mbt war.
A very interesting article indeed!!! There could be any number of comments that agree with and show the greatness that we hindus originated from, but just a couple of disagreements or false suggestions such as the ones by Manjunath/Martin is all it takes to put doubt into minds. For everything, there will always be some individual trying to put some ridiculous explanation to try and neutralize what we have in our scriptures. What happened in the Mahabharata/Ramayana is not just a myth or mythology…it is history. Science will tell us one day that Pluto is a planet and the next day it is not, Popular thought used to say that the world is flat, or that the earth was at the center of the universe…and they will have no qualms about retracting that later, when they find new evidence that proves otherwise. Our sages have accurately invented and discovered various aspects of the tangible and intangible, just because our little minds cant comprehend it doesn’t make them any lesser.
Loved the article! Great work. It gives me such great pride to have a lineage of such high scientific know-how accompanied by such great amnesia! Love i 🙂
Idiot…atleast check the map first before commenting. Pokkran is in rajasthan – mohanje daro in pakistan…what relation they both have?
everytime some great archaelogical find comes to fore its seen as make believe, secondly always compared to christianity which occurred way recent. please as grown up, intellects, lets give our great bharata india its due merit. our lord krisna existed and to come he wiil. vande matara. our great cilization will continue to rock the worl now that the foreigners of congress are no more. what is modis name damodar another name for shree krishna
Thouse who say’s that it is fiction .can they explain the line quoted from ‘MAHABHARTHA’about the cloud’s of smoke and all other things explained in it.
must publish such articles-in face book up-dates for sure
dinesh k jani
In the ancient books it was written that people died and jumped into water to over come the heat .. that was correct because it was used by another king to test if nuclear power was power ful enough or not .. and he was not well educated like the pandavas.. the article dinot coute the details completely.
If you observe those skeltons which are more than 6 feet. At present humans are not more than 6 feet tall. Mahabaratha war occured some 5000 years back which is a great battle in which more than 90 laks died. In that they have used brahmastra which is equal to present atom bombs
Very informative and useful !
Namaste, The more I read , the more I love myself and God who gave me birth in Hindu Religion, so ancient, so tolerant, so kind, so spiritual,so scientific, so much technologically sound when other were and are still hunting,hurting,killing,cheating,snatching,hating the HINDUISM sect had made humongous progress in Humanity, Technology, Spirituality.I pray fervently to our Spiritual God to bring us back the Humanity,Glory of Hinduism.
In one instance the earth passed through the cometary tail of Venus unleashing at once a stupendous world catastrophe – burying half the globe in thousands of feet of gravel and clay (note:clay is pulverized granite) practically instantaneously – massive solar and world wide plasma discharge in 3 different phases are each describable in Vedic memory.
I wonder which NGO Manjunath runs and how much he receives from his foreign masters and why he is so allergic to any discoveries found about ancient India which enhance the image and pride of Bhaarat.
Asteroid. End of story
think someone who described this have seen atomik blast like nostradam and the words in poem must not be taken literally,word for word.its simple many people had this talent.vanga and casey and many …
Manjunath Rao, you didn’t cover the skeletons and other pain points that are not easily explained.