About 90 miles south
of Delhi, in the Braj area of Uttar Pradesh, is a city and holy location
(tirtha).
Mathura is famous for being the birthplace of the Hindu
deity Krishna.
The Krishna Janam Bhumi, which is said to be the location of
his birth, is still visible today.
Krishna was taken out of Mathura on the same night because
his evil uncle Kamsa, the ruler of Mathura, had murdered all of Krishna's elder
siblings when they were born.
Krishna returned to Mathura when he was of legal age,
murdered Kansa, and collected his inheritance.
Mathura, like other locations in the Braj area, is replete
with associations with Krishna's earthly existence; they provide his followers
(bhakta) access to him by allowing them to imagine the places he visited and
thereby participate in his mythological actions via imagination.
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