Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c27.s2.9

v2.c27.s2.9

⁸ I shall here subjoin an extract of the rise and progress of Vaishnavism as written at my desire by the Mukhya of the temple : “Twenty-five years of the Dwapar (the brazen age) were yet unexpired, when the incarnation (*avatar*) of Sri Krishna took place. Of these, eleven were passed at Gokul,* and fourteen at Mathura. There he used to manifest himself personally, especially at Govardhan. But when the Kaliyug (the iron age) commenced, he retired to Dwarka, an island separated by the ocean from Bharatkand,† where he passed a hundred years before he went to heaven. In Samvat 937 (A.D. 881) God decreed that the Hindu faith should be overturned, and that the Turushka‡ should rule. Then the