Tribes in Ancient India c9.28

c9.28

Mathurā was also known in the time of Megasthenes (300 B.C.) as the centre of Kṛṣṇa worship¹; it was well known as the birthplace of the hero Kṛṣṇa.² Cunningham points out³ that Śūrasena was the grandfather of Kṛṣṇa, and after him Kṛṣṇa and his descendants, who held Mathurā after the death of Kaṃsa, were called the Śūrasenas.