Archeologists report that they may have found the remains of an ancient city beneath the waters of the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gujarat. Wax seals, earthenware, and other artifacts have been attributed to Dvaraka, the ancient capital of Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

S. R. Rao, resident archeologist at India's National Institute of Oceanography, led a diving expedition a few miles off the coast of Gujarat last December, locating a vast temple complex. Subsequent laboratory tests have shown that the temple flourished as part of a city more than three thousand years ago.

The diving expedition used sophisticated underwater vacuum tubes and side-scan sonar to locate the Dvaraka site. "This project is helping us to learn about our history, our culture, and our religion," said V. V. Varadachari, the oceanography institute's director.

Critics of the government-funded expedition have complained that the money should have been used to improve the nation's education system, since 185,000 of India's schools do not even have chalkboards. These critics are not impressed that modern scientific technology is being used for a spiritual purpose to find a principal location of the Supreme Lord's earthly pastimes.

At least in one sense the critics are correct: Most of India's six hundred million citizens already know from reading the Srimad-Bhagavatam and other Vedic literatures that Lord Krsna had a kingdom off the west coast of India. They don't need their scriptural knowledge confirmed through archeology.