Kuntasi ##My Morbi 1 (Harappan angle)##

Kuntasi

I am starting here a series of articles regarding my city Morbi. I hope to do justice to my city and present it in its true colours of past, present and future prospects. I wish to unravel its various aspects post by post. So guys just check it out and please correct me any time whenever I am wrong or my perspective is wrong.

Let’s start this with the first article from the pres-historic time. Kuntasi is a small village and it’s a village from the times of Lothal

Kuntasi is an archaeological site (locally known as Bibi-no-Timbo) which is identified as a port belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization.^[1] This site is located on the right bank of Phulki River, about 3 km south-east of Kuntasi village^[2] and 30 km from Morbi in Maliya taluka of Rajkot District in Gujarat state of India. It is five k.m. inlandward from present shore line. It was first reported by P. P Pandya and later thoroughly explored by Y. M. Chitalwala. The excavations revealed two periods of occupation. Period I is assigned to the Mature Harappan phase (c. 2200–1900 BCE) and the Period II is assigned to the Late Harappan phase (c.1900–1700 BCE).^[3] This site was identified as a jetty and a manufacturing centre.(This article is direct from wiki)

I visited this site today only and it’s in very bad condition, there are no sign boards around. Thorns have grown around it. What was yesteryear's port in full bloom is now in a very sorry state. There is no effort by anyone to find out about its glory. It’s truly said very glorious and beautiful things wither and get forgotten with time. I refer to this site as it’s connected with the history of Morbi in some way or other it’s hard to find out. The material available is scarce yet I m posting some photos I took today with various references.

Ancient shorelines of Gujarat, India, during the Indus civilization (Late Mid-Holocene): A study based on archaeological evidences

A. S. Gaur* and K. H. Vora

Marine Archaeology Centre, National Institute of Oceanography,
Dona Paula, Goa 403 004, India

Changes in the shoreline at any point could be due to various reasons such as tectonic disturbance or shift in sedimentological regime causing erosion or deposition. Many scientific investigations, focusing on the palaeo-shoreline vis-à-vis sea level fluctuations in India based on numerous geological techniques, have indicated that at about 6000 BP, the sea level was approximately 6 m higher than at present and about 4000 years BP it stabilized at the present one with minor fluctuations.

Kuntasi is another site locally known as Bibino Timbo located about 3 km south-east of the Kuntasi village. It is about 5 km inlandward from the present shoreline. A large stone structure measuring 9.5 m ´  4.1 m outside the fortification, according to Dhavalikar et al.²⁰ was used as landing platform for going down to the creek for loading-unloading cargo in boats. They further suggested that it was not an agricultural settlement but was a centre for acquiring and processing raw materials for manufacturing articles for export. Discovery of two cylindrical stone anchors with tapering sides, and large holes bored vertically throughout the length and the overall geomorphology of the area corroborate that Kuntasi could have been a port situated at the creek mouth during the Harappan period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuntasi wiki reference

Kuntasi: a Harappan Emporium on West Coast by M. R. Raval & Y. M. Chitalwala M. K. Dhavalikar (Jan 1, 1996)

NagKanya

NagKanya

 

Recently I came across the news that MOSAD is using beautiful females as their ultimate lethal weapon. I remember the use of beauties as weapons from the time of “Chandragupt Maurya”. This time is more famous as the time of “Chanakya” the great economist of India.

The fact is that the beautiful girls were hand-picked by the chief minister of the king at their tender age to become the “NagKanya”. They were fed with snake venom in miniscule quantities from the starting point. Even military training was imparted to them. They were also made experts in “Sringara”(fatal feminine attraction by make-up, clothing, styling and above all body language and facial expressions) and also the “Kamsastra”(The art of love-making). These are the best weapons in the whole animal world.

We can imagine the level of patriotism in these girls that they offered their full life and also their death to their country and to their king. Also we need to consider that any girl could be converted into “NagKanya” but you cannot use them as weapon till they themselves don’t wish.

These beautiful weapons were then sent to penetrate into the enemy side in various roles as dancers, muses etc. They worked up their ladder to reach their targets, often leaving a trail of unsolved deaths behind them. They could cause death in anyways i.e. by biting, when others bite them or by sexual intercourse. The lethality of their ingested venom depended on their emotions of anger, despair, fear or revenge.

There was no guarantee that they would come out safely after accomplishing their task. History shows that they were lethal and never missed.