Originally published on skywebsite.com/hollow/Vedic-Hollow-Earth/id22.html (2002-04-20), a page of Dean De Lucia's website; recovered from the Internet Archive.
An excerpt from page 87 of The Hidden Secrets of the Hollow Earth by Warren Smith.
" There is an ancient legend among the Hindus that tells of a subterranean
civilization of " immense beauty " beneath central Asia. Several underground
cities are said to be located north of the Himalaya mountains, possibly in
Afghanistan, or under the Hindu Kush. This subterranean Shangri-la is
inhabited by a race of golden people who seldom communicate with the surface
world. From time to time they travel into outer land through tunnels that
stretch upward in many directions. Entrances to the tunnels are believed to
be hidden in several of the ancient cities of the Orient. Tunnel entrances
are said to be in Ellore and the Ajunta Caverns in the Chandore Mountain
range of India."
From Page 142 of the above:
Madame Blavatsky's greatest literary work is The Secret Doctrine, one of the most remarkable occult books ever published. In The Secret Doctrine she told of ancient, subterranean tunnels, underground cities, and hidden depositories of ancient literature. The book was published shortly before her death on May 8, 1891. The following selections are related to the Hollow Earth mystery.
" . . . Moreover in all of the large and wealthy lamasaries there are subterranean crypts and cave-libraries, cut in the rock, where the Gonpa and the Ihakbang are situated in the mountains. Beyond the western Tsaydam, in the solitary passes of Kuenlen, there are several such hiding places. Along the ridge of Altyntag, whose soil no European foot has ever trodden so far, there exists a certain hamlet, lost in a deep gorge. It is a small cluster of houses, a hamlet rather than a monastery, with a 'poor-looking temple in it, and one old lama, a hermit, living near to watch it. Pilgrims say that the subterranean galleries and halls under it contain a collection of books, the number of which, according to the accounts given, is too large to find room even in the British museum.
" According to the same tradition the now desolate regions of the waterless land of Tamin a virtual wilderness in the heart of Turkestan were in days of old covered with flourishing and wealthy cities. At present, a few verdant oases only relieve its dread solitude. One such, carpeting the sepulchre of a vast city buried under the sandy soil of the desert, belongs to no one, but is often visited by Mongolians and Buddhists. The tradition also speaks of immense subterranean abodes of large corridors filled with tiles and cylinders . . ."
Madame Blavatsky based her published reports on statements from people she had met during her travels. She admitted that the subterranean crypts and underground cities might well be "actual fact" or " idle tumor."
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