Asteroid impacted Mohenjo Daro? (Part 20 of the Mahabharata Series)

 In the 20th part of the Mahabharata Series, we explore the possibility of an asteroid impact in the Mohenjo Daro region, on the banks of River Sindhu. The Mahabharata mentions the Sindhu's water reversing due to a south-westerly wind gush, likely caused by a falling meteor or asteroid.

The skeletal remains in Mohenjo Daro's Lower Town show a peculiar line of four impacted sites with radioactive substances, previously cited as proof of Aryan invasion and massacre. However, research suggests the dead were squatter workers in a workshop hit by asteroid fragments. The site was abandoned, leading to a mound forming – "Mohenjo Daro" which means "Mound of the dead"

A Varaha seal on a skeleton links to working people given the Varaha identity, a symbol of Jayadratha, Sindhu's king and Dhritharashtra's son-in-law.

The impact, seen only in the Lower Town and not on the Great Bath (which emerged in the Mature Phase, ~2500 BCE), suggests this event predates the Great Bath. The impact date: Karthika Shukla Dwadasi (25th August, 3136 BCE), when Krishna travelled to Hastinapura.