Mahabharata

The Mahabharata and The Puranas are two of the ancient epics of Hinduism that refer to events dated between 1500 and 1000 BC and probably developed into their present form between 400 BC and 200 AD. >However, Dr Manish Pandit has written three books advocating a date of 3067 BC for the Mahabharata War^(e).<

These epics make mention of Attala, the white island, a continent located in the western ocean. This vague similarity with the name of Atlantis may be purely coincidental, but it is regularly produced as ‘evidence’ of pre-Platonic reference to Plato’s flooded island.

A brief, but highly speculative attempt to link Atlantis with the Mahabharata is offered by Santosh Kumar^(c).

A quite radical suggestion has come from the Italian writer, Michele Manher, who has proposed^(a) that Homer’s Iliad originated in India where elements of it can be identified in the Mahabharata!

>Wikipedia notes^(d) that “the Greek writer Dio Chrysostom (c.40–c.120 CE) reported that Homer’s poetry was being sung even in India. Many scholars have taken this as evidence for the existence of a Mahabharata at this date, whose episodes Dio or his sources identify with the story of the Iliad.”<

The website^(b) supporting the ‘Atlantis in Indonesia’ theory of Arysio dos Santos has an extensive article with the self-explanatory title of The Hindu Origin of the Myth of Atlantis.

^(a) https://www.migration-diffusion.info/article.php?id=100

^(b) The Hindu Origin of the Myth of Atlantis | Atlantis (archive.org)

^(c)  https://web.archive.org/web/20170912013243/https://www.speakingtree.in/allslides/atlantis-in-the-mahabharata

^(d)  Mahabharata – Wikipedia *

^(e)  https://astronomyofindia.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/3067bce-dissection-of-theories-on-the-mahabharata/ *