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An inscription in Mathura discovered in 1988 mentions "The last day of year 116 of Yavana hegemony (Yavanarajya)", also attesting presence of the Indo-Greeks in the 2nd century BCE. The inscription would date to the 116th year of the Yavana era (thought to start in 186–185 BCE) which would give it a date of 70 or 69 BCE. [3]
Balarama and Krishna being received at the court of the King Ugrasena at Mathura. Ugrasena (Sanskrit: उग्रसेन) is a character mentioned in the Hindu epic, Mahabharata. He is the King of Mathura, a kingdom that was established by the Vrishni tribes from the Yadavamsha clan. His son Kamsa was a cousin of Krishna's mother, Devaki.
The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd century BCE, which centered on the city of Mathura, in central northern India, during a period in which Buddhism, Jainism together with Hinduism flourished in India. [5]
A partially preserved Sakyamuni statue, also from Mathura, has the date "Year 94", although without mentioning Vasudeva specifically. [ 6 ] The statue, located in the Mathura Museum , is an important example of the art of Mathura .
The Mahabharata and the Puranas mention that the Yadus or Yadavas, a confederacy comprising numerous clans were the rulers of the Mathura region. [11] and were pastoral cowherds. [12] The Mahabharata also refers to the exodus of the Yadavas from Mathura to Dvaraka owing to pressure from the Paurava rulers of Magadha, and probably also from the ...
Shurasena or Shursen/Shursaini (Sanskrit: शूरसेन, IAST: Śūrasena) is a Yadava ruler of Mathura featured in Hindu mythology. He was married to a nāga (or serpent) woman named Marisha. She bore all of his children and was the cause for Vasuki 's boon to Bhima. [ 2 ]
[5] [6] [7] Born in Mathura, [8] in the prison of his maternal uncle Kamsa, Krishna was taken to Nanda, by his father in Vraja, through river Yamuna, on the night of his birth. [9] Krishna's birth is celebrated on the eighth night of the Bhadrapada month every year as Krishna Janmashtami. [10]
Subsequently, Gargya came to Mathura, and had sex with Indra's Apsara (nymph) in disguise. Kalayavana was the result of this coitus, Gargya crowned him as the new king of Yavanas, and left for the forest. [4] According to the Vishnu Purana and Harivamsa. He was the partial incarnation of Krodha. [5] [6]