Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds

– The Bhagavad Gita

Something I found to be of interest, or perhaps shear speculation. You decide. Makes you wonder if humanity has been down this road before…

Enjoy.

Graphic above: Ancient Hindu texts describe great battles taking place and an unknown weapon that causes great destruction. A manuscript illustration of the battle of Kurukshetra, recorded in the Mahabharata.

Seven years after the nuclear tests in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the father of the atomic bomb, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, was giving a lecture at a college when a student asked if the first nuclear device that went off was the one at Alamogordo.

“Yes, in modern times,” he replied.

If we look at the theoretical physicist’s answer literally, did he mean that in ancient times nuclear bombs, or variations of them, existed among ancient civilizations? And that this apocalyptic catastrophe doesn’t correlate with volcanic eruptions or other known phenomena such as a meteorite strike or overhead atmospheric explosion?

Oppenheimer, who avidly studied ancient Sanskrit, was undoubtedly referring to a passage in “The Bhagavad Gita” that describes a global disaster caused by “an unknown weapon, a ray of iron.”

This story centers around the ruins of the ancient cities of Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in what is now modern-day Pakistan. According to such ancient writings as the Mahabharata, these sites were once the home of a great Indus Valley Civilization that rivaled those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

To hear the scientific community speaking of the existence of atomic weapons before this modern cycle of civilization is certainly shocking. In fact dozens of buildings from the ancient world present bricks with fused rocks, like the heat test that modern scientists cannot explain, may have gone nuclear long ago such as:

• Ancient forts and towers in Scotland, Ireland, and England
• The city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey
• Alalakh in northern Syria
• The ruins of the Seven Cities, near Ecuador
• Cities between the Ganges River in India and the Hills of Rajmahal
• Areas of the Mojave Desert in the United States

According to researchers, this controversial text perfectly describes the use of nuclear weapons 5,000 years before they were utilized on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Interestingly, there is a epicenter of approximately 45 meters in diameters at the center of the city where the terrain and buildings appear to be crystallized as if they were exposed to a massive heat source.

On the buildings located near the center of the city, researchers found that the bricks of the walls that are faced towards the exterior and looking away from the epicenter are also fused or melted.

However, this could have only been achieved, according to researchers, by exposing the buildings to a temperature above 3-4 thousand degrees Fahrenheit.

Similarly, there are plenty of texts that relate to all kinds of details that illustrate the existence of airships (vimanas) and rockets or missiles capable of reaching long distances.

Of course we should remain somewhat skeptical, if for any other reason, the below text is not original, or as I understand it, not the most accurate translation. However, there are other details that point towards an abrupt end of the inhabitants of Mohenjo-Daro.

The following texts is the Mahabharata:

“Gurkha, flying a swift and powerful vimana,
hurled a single projectile
charged with the power of the Universe.

An incandescent column of smoke and flame,
as bright as ten thousand suns,
rose with all its splendor.

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 unrecognizable.

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.”

 A second passage:

“Dense arrows of flame,
like a great shower,
issued forth upon creation,
encompassing the enemy.
A thick gloom swiftly settled upon the Pandava hosts.
All points of the compass were lost in darkness.
Fierce wind began to blow
Clouds roared upward,
showering dust and gravel.

Birds croaked madly…
the very elements seemed disturbed.
The sun seemed to waver in the heavens
The earth shook,
scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon.

Elephants burst into flame
and ran to and fro in a frenzy…
over a vast area,
other animals crumpled to the ground and died.
From all points of the compass,
the arrows of flame rained continuously and fiercely.”
— The Mahabharata