Harrappa Rig Veda Atharva Veda Varuna Devas Danavas Aditi Kashayapa Chandragupta Aryabhatta Vijaynagaram Kalinga Portuguese Vasco da Gama Moghuls Shivaji HMS Hindostan Cornwallis Bombay Dock. India's sea history originates before the introduction of western civilisation. The world's first tidal dock is accepted to have been worked at Lothal around 2300 BC during the Harappan Civilisation, close to the present day Mangrol harbor on the Gujarat coast. Malan ni pothi. nineteenth century Kutchi sailor's log bookThe Rig Veda, composed around 2000 BC, credits Varuna with information of the sea courses regularly utilized by boats and portrays maritime campaigns which utilized hundred-oared boats to quell different kingdoms. There is a reference to Plava, the side wings of a vessel which give soundness under tempest conditions: maybe the forerunner of present day stabilizers. So also, the Atharva Veda notices pontoons which were open, all around built and agreeable. In Indian folklore, Varuna was the lifted up god to whom lesser humans turned for absolution of their transgressions. It is just later that Indra ended up known as the King of the Gods, and Varuna was consigned to turn into the God of Seas and Rivers. The sea, perceived as the store of various fortunes, was agitated by the Devas and Danavas, the children of Kashyapa by rulers Aditi and Diti, so as to acquire Amrit, the nectar of interminability. Indeed, even today the summon at the starting function of a warship is routed to Aditi.
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