India's Modi realises dream of diving underwater to get close to ancient city

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi went scuba diving off a beach in Dwarka on Feb 25 to touch the sacred underwater city and offer prayers to Lord Krishna which he said was his long-time dream.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi realised his decades-long dream of touching the sacred

00:07 city of Dwarka in the deep sea of Gujarat on Sunday.

00:11 Modi went scuba diving off the Panchkui beach, and he was lowered down to the sea where he

00:16 performed prayers at the site of an underwater Hindu temple.

00:20 He then offered peacock feathers to Lord Krishna.

00:24 Reports said Modi shared his experience at a gathering later in the day that the vision

00:29 of ancient Dwarka in the sea had further strengthened his resolve of seeing a developed India.

00:35 He said archaeologists had written a lot about Dwarka, and Indian scriptures also contained

00:41 information on the ancient city.

00:44 In his post on X, Modi said, "To pray in Dwarka, which is immersed in the waters, was a divine

00:50 experience for him, and he felt connected to an ancient era of spiritual grandeur and

00:55 devotion."

00:56 For the followers of Lord Krishna, Dwarka is one of the most important places of pilgrimage.

01:01 Legend has it that Lord Krishna settled in the ancient city for some time, but after

01:06 he left, the city got submerged.

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