Mathurā
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Mathurā. [alt. Madhurā] (T. bcom rlag; C. Motouluo; J. Machūra; K. Mat’ura 摩偸羅).[1] An ancient city in north-central India, on the Yamunā River, about thirty miles (fifty kms.) north of Agra.[1] It was renowned as the birthplace of Kṛṣṇa.[1][2]
During the time of the Buddha, it was the capital of Śurasena and was ruled by King Avantiputra. The Buddha seems to have visited the city but did not preach there.[1]
- Buddhism gained favor there in later years, and Mathurā became one of the major scholastic centers of the Sarvāstivāda and/or Mūlasarvāstivāda school; both Faxian and Xuanzang describe it as a flourishing Buddhist city.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Mathurā
- ↑
摩突羅, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Further reading
Mathura, Wikipedia
