27 Facts About Mathura

In Hinduism, Mathura is birthplace of Krishna, which is located at the Krishna Janmasthan Temple Complex.

Mathura was the capital of the kingdom of Surasena, ruled by Kansa, the maternal uncle of Krishna.

Mathura has been chosen as one of the heritage cities for the Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana scheme of Government of India.

The most important pilgrimage site in Mathura was Katra, now referred to as Krishna Janmasthan ('the birthplace of Krishna').

Archaeological excavations at Mathura show the gradual growth of a village into an important city during the Vedic age.

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Mathura derived its importance as a center of trade due to its location where the northern trade route of the Indo-Gangetic Plain met with the routes to Malwa and the west coast.

Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of Mathura red sandstone from Rakhigarhi - a site of Indus Valley civilization dated to third millennium BCE - which was used as a grindstone; red sandstone was a popular material for historic period sculptures.

The Indo-Scythian satraps of Mathura are sometimes called the "Northern Satraps", as opposed to the "Western Satraps" ruling in Gujarat and Malwa.

The Mora Well inscription of Mahakshatrapa Rajuvula, of the early decades of the first century CE, found in a village seven miles from Mathura, stated that images pratim of the blessed (bhagavatam) five Vrishni heroes, were installed in a stone shrine of a person called Tosa.

Mathura ateliers were most active during the epoch of the great Kushan emperors Kanishka, Huvishka, Vasudeva whose reign represents the Golden Age of Mathura sculpture.

At that moment, though still in Mathura, it appears as if Ganga has merged with Yamuna at the Sangam.

Mathura found the people were very well off, there were no taxes other than for those on farmers who tilled the royal land.

Mathura found that people did not kill animals, no one consumed wine, and did not eat onion or garlic.

Mathura found that engraved title deeds were issued to land owners.

Famous female Alvar saint, Andal visualized going to a pilgrimage which began at Mathura, then proceeded to Gokul, the Yamuna, the pool of Kaliya, Vrindavan, Govardhan, and finished at Dwarka.

Mathura was firmly attached to the Mahomedan religion, and made a point of destroying all Hindu temples.

Mathura forbade the barbers to shave the beards and heads of the inhabitants, in order to prevent the Hindus following their usual practices at such pilgrimages.

Mathura was so zealous a Musulman that he utterly destroyed divers places of worship of the infidels, and left not a vestige remaining of them.

Mathura entirely ruined the shrines of Mathura, the mine of heathenism, and turned their principal Hindu places of worship into caravanserais and colleges.

Mathura thus put an end to all the idolatrous rites of the infidels there; and no Hindu, if he wished to have his head or beard shaved, could get a barber to do it.

Mathura then undertook a tour of the sacred forests of Braj, and, on his return to Mathura, founded religious establishments and celebrated Holi.

Mathura is a holy city in Hinduism and is considered the heart of Brij Bhoomi, the land of Krishna.

Mathura Museum is notable for archaeological artefacts, especially those from the Kushan and Gupta empires.

Sex ratio of Mathura is 858 females per 1000 males, which has increased from 840.

Mathura Cantt railway station is a major route for eastern and central railway.

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Mathura's name came to note when a group of ministers terminated the plan of building Taj International Airport at Agra.

Mathura Refinery located in the city is one of the biggest oil refineries of Asia with a refining capacity of 8.