Coincidence?

Its been a long time since the last post, loads to write, but so little time...
Came across this article, pretty interesting. History has a way of producing strange coincidences*

In "pre-puranic" times there lived a race of people in the land now called India. They were called "sagaras" and were descendants of the Solar Race, the same race from which King Dasaratha traced his Raghuvamsha ancestry.

Once, the Sagaras performed the Horse Sacrifice , the "aswamedha-yagnyam" where they let loose a horse and allowed it to roam around the land wherever it wanted and then after a set period of time had elapsed went after it to retrieve it. The lands and empires that
they passed through while searching for the horse, they bring under their reign and protection.

Unfortunately, the although the Sagaras travelled far and wide they could not locate their sacrificial horse. The Sagaras suspected foul-play and a horse-thief.

They travelled and travelled until they came to a great ocean. They travelled across it to what they believed was into the bowels of "bhuloka" or "patala-loka". The Sagaras at last found the horse in a forest near the hermitage of a sage, 'Kapila Maharishi'. Mistaking him to be the horse-thief they began to man-handle the 'maharishi'.

'Maharishis' don't like to be man-handled and so Kapila became terribly incensed and with a mere glance of his eye reduced all the 60000 Sagaras to ashes.

Many ages later Sage Bhagiratha performed great austerities and brought the River Ganges from the heavens to earth. With the waters of the sacred Ganges the Sage Bhagiratha brought the Sagaras, turned ashes, back to life. And thus prospered the race of the Solar Dyanasty, the Raghuvamsha, the precursors to the Ramayana.

Now that the mythological bit is done, lets look at a few interesting facts.
The story goes that America which is on the antipodes as far as India is concerned is to be taken to be "patala" i.e. the core of your "hollow earth".
'KapilAranya', the forest where they found Kapila's hermitage, is the present day "California". Also noteworthy is that near California there is both a "Horse Island" and an "Ash Island", is it not, Pretty interesting huh?

Ash Island gets its name because of the "Ash Trees" that are found in plenty there. Incidentally, Greek mythology associates ash wood with the netherworld. Fascinating. Unfortunately I have not been able to do any reading on Horse Island, though I will definitely do a follow up on that...

*So, for all those trying to read between the lines for "coincidence", I just have to say, History has a way of producing strange coincidences!