Sacred city (tirtha) on Gujarat's western coast, on the Arabian Sea's beach.
Dwaraka is well known in mythology as the capital city of Krishna's empire, where he is said to have resided in the years after the Mahabharata war.
The Dwarakanath Temple, dedicated to Krishna in his incarnation as the "Lord of Dwaraka," is the most prominent shrine in Dwaraka.
Dwaraka is also one of India's four dhams ("divine abodes"), holy locations that roughly define the country's physical borders; the other three are Badrinath, Puri, and Rameshvaram.
The Sharada math, one of the four Dashanami Sanyasi maths (monastic institutions) supposedly founded by the philosopher Shankaracharya, is also located in Dwaraka.
The Kitawara group of the Dashanami Sanyasis is headquartered at the Sharada math, one of the four primary organizational groups, each of which is located at one of the mathematics.
Dwaraka is sanctified by a network of legendary and theological ties, as are many other Hindu holy locations.
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