Mathura Brindaban- The Mystical Land of Lord Krishna

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Shri Krishna, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu is revered as the most endearing of the Hindu Gods and is fondly remembered for his charm, his mischievous pranks and extraordinary exploits. Ever since he took birth in the town of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, this small town also known as Brajbhoomi has become a place of legendary importance. The legendary tales associated with Lord Krishna has always been a matter of awe-inspiring attraction and enigma for both natives and foreigners alike.

Even Today the little towns and hamlets are still alive with the Krishna- legends and still redolent with the music of His flute. Vrindavan, a village once noted for its fragrant groves, is where He spent an eventful youth. There are numerous other little spots in the area that still reverberate with the enchantment of Lord Krishna. The city of Mathura, the nucleus of Brajbhoomi, is located at a distance of 145 km south-east of Delhi and 58 km north-west of Agra. Brajbhoomi can be divided into two distinct units the eastern part in the trans- Yamuna tract with places like Gokul, Mahavan, Baldeo, Mat and Bajna and the western side of the Yamuna covering the Mathura region that encompasses Vrindavan, Govardhan, Kusum Sarovar, Barsana and Nandgaon. The land of Braj starts from Kotban near Hodel about 95 km from Delhi and ends at Runakta which is known specially for its association with the great poet Surdas, an ardent Krishna devotee.

THIS Memoir was originally intended to form one of the uniform series of local histories compiled by order of the Government. Its main object was therefore to serve as a book of reference for the use of district officers: thus it touches upon many topics which the general reader will condemn as trivial and uninteresting, and in the earlier chapters the explanations are more detailed and minute than the professed student of history and archaeology will probably deem at all necessary. But a local memoir can never be a severely artistic performance. On a small scale it resembles a dictionary or encyclopaedia and must, if complete, be composed of very heterogeneous materials, out of which those who have occasion to consult it must select what they require for their own purposes, without concluding that whatever is superfluous for them is equally familiar or distasteful to other people.