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The Yavanarajya inscription, also called the Maghera Well Stone Inscription, [2] was discovered in the village of Maghera, 17 kilometers north of Mathura, India in 1988. [3] The Sanskrit inscription, carved on a block of red sandstone, is dated to the 1st century BCE, and is currently located at the Mathura Museum in Mathura.
The Mathura school became one of the two major schools of Gupta Empire art, together with the school of Benares, with Mathura school remaining the most important and the oldest. [225] It is characterized by its usage of mottled red stone from Karri in the Mathura district, and its foreign influences, continuing the traditions of the art of ...
The Lakulisha Mathura pillar inscription consists of horizontal lines across five zones of the pilaster over about 2.25 feet (0.69 m) by 1.5 feet (0.46 m) surface area. The pillar's top and bottom sections are squares, the middle is an octagon. [7] The pillar is smooth on just one top face, one bottom face and five of the eight middle faces.
Mathura (Hindi pronunciation: [mɐ.t̪ʰʊ.ɾäː] ⓘ) is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It is located 57.6 kilometres (35.8 mi) north of Agra, and 146 kilometres (91 mi) south-east of Delhi; about 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) from the town of Vrindavan, and 22 kilometres (14 mi) from Govardhan.
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 ]
One of the highlights of Krishna Janmashtami is the midnight celebration, marking the exact moment of Krishna's birth. Devotees gather in temples and homes to sing devotional songs (bhajans) and perform traditional dances, such as the Raslila , which depicts Krishna's divine play and exploits with his beloved devotees, especially the Gopis ...
A relatively large number of similar statues are known from Mathura. The Kimbell Bodhisattva in one of only five known dated "Kapardin" statues of the Buddha. [18] [19] The style of these statues is somewhat reminiscent of the earlier monumental Yaksha statues, usually dated to one or two centuries earlier. [20]
Similarly, sculptures show him with either one or six heads, with the six head iconography dated to post-Gupta Empire era. [71] Artwork found in Gandhara and Mathura dated to the Kushan period shows him with one head, dressed in a dhoti (a cloth wrapped at the waist, covering the legs) armour, wielding a spear in his right hand with a rooster ...