Hindu Epics such as Mahabharata have often been described as mythology.  “On the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended. The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwaraka.“ According to Vishnu Purana – Dwaraka was submerged by the sea right after the death of Lord Krishna. This was regarded as a pretentious symbol of speech, part of a story filled with great myths. In the early eighties an important archaeological site was found in India , at Dwraka, the site of the legendary city of Lord Krishna .  Now, it is discovered that the whole coast of western India sank by nearly 40 feet around 1500 B.C. E. The first clear historical record is dated 574 A.D. and occurs in the Palitana Plates of Samanta Simhaditya. This inscription refers to Dwraka as the capital of the western coast of Saurashtra and still more important, states that Sri Krishna lived here. The establishment of one of the four of his pithas at Dwraka by Sankaracharya attests to the great religious sanctity the place must have attained by the eighth century A.D. 

The high personality of Lord Krishna
Sri Krishna is a towering personality and it is difficult to separate the human aspect of his life from the divine in Krishna concept. He is a grand mystery and everyone has tried to understand him in his own way, according to his spiritual light or vision. The Yogis considered him to be the absolute truth, the Gopis the highest object of love, the warriors as an ideal hero, Kamsa as an object of fear and Sisupala as an object of hate. 

Whether one thinks of him as an object of love or hate, one attains him. Yudhishthira attained him through friendship and Narada by devotion. Krishna is the embodiment of intellectual and spiritual glory. No other single idea has so much influenced the course of India ’s religion, philosophy, art and literature as the life and personality of Krishna . As a child he was wonderful, as a youth he was physically most perfect and beautiful. as a thinker he was the very embodiment of Vedic scholarship and his teachings in the Gita embody the immortal message of desire less action, knowledge and single-minded devotion. "As a fighter he was without rival, as a statesman most shrewd, as a social thinker very liberal, as a teacher the most eloquent, as a friend never failing, and as a householder the most idea." It is with his help that the Pandavas were able to overcome all opponents and win the battle of Mahabharata. 

Dwaraka – The Importance of Heritage

Dwaraka has a special importance as one of the major Hindu pilgrim place, known as the capital of Lord Krishna’s Kingdom. It is also an important historical monument. The region of the west coast, where Krishna was to settle the Yadavas was full of flowering and fruit-bearing trees. Here grew the nagacampas, grapes, coconut trees and many others. It was the land of the hunter Ekalavya. Dronacarya had also lived here. Krishna decided to built a new city here and laid the foundation at an auspicious moment. He named the new city Dvaravati. Much later the poet Magha in his Sisupalavadha, sarga2, describes in slokas 31 onwards, the city of Dwaraka , sloka 33 can be translated: "The yellow glitter of the golden fort of the city in the sea throwing yellow light all round looked as if the flames of vadavagni came out tearing asunder the sea." Literary texts like the Mahabharata, Harivamsha, Sijupdla-vadha & Puranas contain traditions about foundation of Dwaraka, its planning and glory. Before the legendary city of Dwaraka   was discovered some scho-lars were of the view that the Mahabharata being only a myth it would be futile to look for the remains of Dwaraka and that too in the sea. Others held that the Mahabharata battle was a family dispute exaggerated into a war.