The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.211

c5.s2.211

which are shown the cradle of Kṛṣṇa and the spots where Putanā was killed and where Śiva appeared to see the infant god. At a short distance from the house of Nanda are the mortar which was overturned by the infant Kṛṣṇa, and the place which contained the twin Arjuna trees broken by Kṛṣṇa. Gokul or new Gokul was founded by Ballabhācāryya in imitation of Mahāvana or Purāṇa (old) Gokul and contains also the same famous spots that are shown in Mahāvana. The shrine of Śyām Lala at new Gokula is believed to mark the spot where Yaśodā, the wife of Nanda, gave birth to Māyā or Yoga-nidrā, substituted by Vāsudeva for the infant Kṛṣṇa. Nanda's palace at Gokul (new Gokul) was converted into a mosque at the time of Aurangzeb. Outside the town is Putnām-khar, where Kṛṣṇa is said to have killed Putanā. Growse identifies Mahāvana with Klisoboras of the Greeks and supposes that the modern Braja was the ancient Anūpa-deśa (Growse's Mathurā); Aṣṭigrāma was the birth-place of Rādhikā (Adi P., ch. 12). See Gokula and Braja-maṇḍala.