“The sea suddenly leaped the shore and engulfed the whole town. The glorious buildings started submerging one after another in the sea. This happened in a spur of moments.
A lake replaced a whole town. No sign of a human habitat remained. Dwarka remained a name – sake, as a memoir.”

Prof. S.R.Rao, the renowned archeologist conducted 12 search campaigns beneath the sea to search and reveal latent facts of ancient Dwarka during 1983 to 1990. His book entitled ‘the Lost City of Dwarka’ in 1999 created a hue and generated tremendous interest. Dr. Rao and his team with the help of modern techniques and under-water cameras have found out ancient Dwarka. They have found two large structures on the seabed one of which is near Bet Dwarks. Remains of a well-organized town have been found in the sea onlu half a kilometer away from the shore.

The remains are in six parts. They contain places etc. Stone – moulds for making weapons and instruments as well as iron-made weapons have been found.

Mahabharata talks of ‘Vaari Durg’ – a fort to stop water. Archeologists have discovered presence of such a fort. A seal is found which significantly has pictures of goat and bullock etc. An ancient book ‘Harivansh Purana’ talks of a seal possessed by every citizen of Dwarka as a mark of identity. No outsider would allow entry without that seal. Mahabharata talks of seven islands in the area. The satellite pictures of the topography of Okhamandal area testify presence of such geographical islands. Evidences of an ancient time’s harbour are also found. Anchors weighing up to 560 kilograms are found which were in vogue way back in 1500 B.C. in Syria and Cyprus. The remains also include two large titled stones used to launch a boat, techniques came in practice in 900 A. D. Certain pillars of the temple and copper utensils are found.

The utensils found from churning of sea near Dwarka carry inscription in Vedic Sanskrit. They are testified to be of 3528 year old. Prof. Rao says since the sea near Bet Dwarka is muddy, going deep is not possible. Another two to five meter depth might give evidences of Dwarka set up by the Loard Krishna himself, says Prof. Rao. The present Dwarka is the seventh edition, all others are deep sunk in the sea. This is why perhaps Bet Dwarka has an old temple of ‘Matsyavtar’ (fish-incarnation) of the Loard Vishnu.

Dwarka’s remains too date back to those of Harappan era found from Dholavira, Sur Kotada, Lothal. Prof. Rao concludes from his evidences that Krishna’s Dwarka existed 1700 year B.C. at the fag end of Harappan era. That means the earlier conclusions about Krishna dating back to 3100 years B.C. during Vedic era before 5000 years don’t hold ground. That means, we have to believe that Loard Krishna existed on Indian land only before 3500 years.