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Louis Jacolliot, Les fils de Dieu (The Sons of God), 1873.

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Agartha / Agharti

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Originated the Asgartha/Agartha concept in 1873; described a destroyed former capital of India, not originally an underground kingdom.

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Primary literary origin; content is a 19th-century occult synthesis, not Indian primary source. Jacolliot claimed access to 15,000-year-old manuscripts that scholars treat as invented.
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Agartha / Agharti

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Agartha is a legendary hidden kingdom said to lie on or within the Earth's inner surface, usually beneath Central Asia, Tibet, or the Himalayas.

The legend is consistently documented across Jacolliot, Saint-Yves, Ossendowski, and modern encyclopedic synthesis.
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The term and concept of Agartha were introduced in the 1870s by Louis Jacolliot, originally as 'Asgartha,' a destroyed former capital of India (not an underground realm).

Etymology links Asgartha to the Norse Asgard; the 'a' was likely added to seem Sanskrit. No version predates the 1870s.
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