The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s5.60

c5.s5.60

Gokarna is situated as the Sarasvatî-saṅgama or conâla, ch. 40; *Âdi P.*, chs. 12, 15), or Gokula—Same as Vraja or Mahâvana (*Padma P.*, Pâtnda, the foster-father of Krishna Purâna-Gokul where Krishna was reared up. Naestations from the myrmidons of removed from Gokula to Brindâvana to escape molila is six miles from Mathurâ, and Kamsa (*Âdi P.*, ch. 3). Mahâvana or Purâna-Gokḷna. Vallabhâchâryya, who was a contains places associated with the early life of Krishame of Vallabha Bhatta of Âmbalî- contemporary of Chaitanya and known also by the it of Vaishnavas, built new Gokula grâma (*q. v.*), and who founded the Ballabhâchâri seḍyâma Lâla, Yasodâ, wife of Nanda, in imitation of Mahâvana, where, in the temple of Śere Nanda’s palace was converted is said to have given birth to Mâyâ Devî, and wḷharitâmṛita, II, 19; also Growse’s into a mosque at the time of Aurangzeb (*Chaitanya* [one mile to the south of Mahâvana Mathurâ): see Braja. The village of new Gokula is *Chaitanyamangala* (Atul Gosvâmî’s on the eastern bank of the Jamuna [ Lochana Dâs’s ed.) III, p. 181].