People,
Please notice this comment by Shri Krishna in the Vedic classic The Mahabharat. To my mind, this book is something like the Vedic version of the Greek The Odyssey and The Holy Bible all rolled into one.
http://www.holloworbs.com/Krishna_Comments.htm http://www.holloworbs.com/Krishna_Comments.htm
Notice that Shree Krishna uses the term The middle portion. I have seen the term used in the Bhagavat Purana "madhyastan". It means "the middle place", more or less. Similar to Afghanistan.
In relation to the comments above, there is a bit of a geographical description in The Bhagavat Purana of where Shri Krishna met Jarasandha, and it doesn't correspond to anything that exists on the surface of the planet. An eighty mile hig mountain is mentioned. This makes me think that The Earth is similar to an amethyst, which is rough and has some some rumples on the outside; but inside, it is exaggeratedly different, having jagged points, relatively much higher than anything on the surface. It is the way of nature.
More recently, I have run across a comment in The Bhagavat Gita, which is an excerpt from the same Mahabharat. It ocurrs in the first chapter wherein all the warriors are blowing the conch shells, texts 16 - 18. The guide of the blind King Dhritarashta; the King is addressed as Prithivi-Pate. The word pate is simply translated as "king", and it does mean to be the king or to be the lord over something.
But the part about "pritivi" is simply left out. It means "the surface"!!! So when I compare this comment by The blind King's guide, and Shri Krishna's comment in The Mahabharat about the middle portion, I get the definite impression that the warfare depicted in The Bhagavat Gita was between the warrior clans of the hollow earth and the ones on the surface.
There is justification for this because it is much noted in the vedic literature that the incarnation Parasuram met certain warrior clans of the hollow earth and fought with them and exiled them to what I once saw was translated as "the unwanted lands".
Well, the lands on the surface as compared to the lands in the hollow portion are certainly unwanted, and since the Aryan migration was obviously from North to South, and since much archaeology and artifacts support the existence of a Vedic culture in the Arctic, I interpret - without stretching things - that the Vedic races that we see in Europe came from the Arctic, such as the Germans/Huns, the Scots and the Celtics, the Romans, Atlanteans and Etruscans, the original Greeks, et cetera; and that in the ultimate issue they came from the hollow earth. But they settled on the surface and generations and generations passed in this way after Parasurama, with this separation. The Vedic races passed into Central Asia, northern India and Bangladesh, too, and they mixed.
So the Bhagavad Gita war was very much a war between the inside and the outside. Notice that almost all of the hollow earth was united behind Jarasandha and was united with the blind king and his son, who opposed Krishna and Arjuna. So much was this so that the blind King's guide addresses him as the King of Pritivi, the outside, the forces from the surface.
Comments?
When it comes to the Vedic side of things, I have actually come up with a few original perspectives over the years.