{"id":18423,"date":"2012-10-10T05:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T04:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2021-09-20T07:06:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T06:06:37","slug":"tripura-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tripura-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tripura <\/strong>is the name of a triple city in Hindu mythology that was famed for its architecture and rich adornments. Its inhabitants are reputed to have become greedy over time and were destroyed by Shiva (Mahabharata, Bk7, Drona Parva, Sec.XI). The story is almost the same as that of Atlantis and its demise. Since 1997 until his death in 2005 the late <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/arysio-nunes-dos-santos\/\">Arysio Nunes dos Santo<\/a>s has championed the idea that Plato\u2019s Atlantis narrative regarding a submerged civilisation had been borrowed from the east. He also linked Atlantis with Tripura<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>2005 not only saw the death of dos Santos shortly after the publication of his\u00a0theory in book form<sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/s\/\"><sup>320<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>,\u00a0while in Moscow, Sergey Teleguin had his book,\u00a0 <em>Anatomy of a Myth,<\/em> published in Russian, in which he also identified Tripura with Atlantis.\u00a0An English translation of part of his book has now been provided by Teleguin<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(c)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/leonard-r-cedric\/\">R. Cedric Leonard<\/a> has also linked Atlantis with Tripura, the capital of the island of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atala\/\">Atala<\/a><sup>(b)<\/sup>. However, Leonard has\u00a0chosen the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/azores\/\">Azore<\/a>s as the most likely location for Atlantis and dos Santos opted for Sundaland, a large landmass, now partly submerged encompassing, among others, Thailand, the Philippines and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/indonesia-3\/\">Indonesia<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190830102636\/http:\/atlan.org\/articles\/corroborating_evidence\/\">Corroborating evidence on the reality of Atlantis | Atlantis (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170624235600\/http:\/www.atlantisquest.com:80\/Asura.html\">https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170624235600\/http:\/www.atlantisquest.com:80\/Asura.html<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantida.primordial.org.ua\/archives\/251\">https:\/\/atlantida.primordial.org.ua\/archives\/251<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tripura is the name of a triple city in Hindu mythology that was famed for its architecture and rich adornments. Its inhabitants are reputed to have become greedy over time and were destroyed by Shiva (Mahabharata, Bk7, Drona Parva, Sec.XI). The story is almost the same as that of Atlantis and its demise. 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