The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.62
The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.62
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Barshana—Barshan, near Bharatpur, on the border of the Chhāta Pargaṇā in the district of Mathurā, where Rādhikā was removed by her parents Bṛishabhānu and Kirat from Rāval, her birth-place. Rādhikā's love for Kṛishṇa an incarnation of Nārāyaṇa has been fully described in the Purāṇas. See Āshṭigrāma. Barshāṇa perhaps a corruption of Bṛishabhānupura. Barshāṇ, however, was also called Barasānu, a hill on the slope of which Bṛishabhānupura was situated.