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SOURCES
There is no dearth of evidence to visualize Sri Krishna's miraculous
sports played on this holy land, covering 20 yojanas in measure
during its heyday Almost all scriptures right from the Vedas like
the Rigveda, Upanishads like Bhagavatha, Harivamsa and Mathura
Mahattmya, Puranas, like Varaha and Padma, philosophical works like
Visishtadvaitlta: Buddhist canonical works -like Mahaniddesa and
Chillaniddesa and travel accounts of Fa-hien and Hieun-Tsang embody
hundreds of the sublime descriptions of the glory of the divyadhama.
On the top of it, Sankirthanacharyas and poet saint-musicians,
like Jayadeva, Chaitanya, Vidyapati, Chandidasa, Narsi Mehta, Mira,
Nabhaji, Nimbarka, Jiva Haridas, Raghunathdas, Rupa and Sanatana,
Gopala Bhatta and Raghunathabatta and Vallabhacharya poured out
their hearts in millions of sweet verses of sublime poetry, filling
in several book stacks in the religious libraries. Srimad Bhagavatha
takes precedence over all such Bhakti sahitya. Leisure and research
may offer many more.
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