Yogmaya is a powerful Goddess form known for her capacity to bewitch and perplex people—in other words, her ability to wield maya, the pow...

  Yamuna River is a river in India. The Yamuna River is a northern Indian river that originates in the Himalayas and flows west and south of...

  Braj is a variant version of the area. This is the southwestern area of the state of Uttar Pradesh, directly south of Delhi, the nat...

    Vinaya Patrika or a petition letter is a collection of 280 short poems written in the Braj Bhasha dialect by poet-saint Tulsidas (1...

      ("Sur Ocean") Surdas , a northern Indian poet-saint, is credited with a corpus of poetry in the Braj Bhasha language known...

  Radhashtami  ("Radha's eighth") is a Hindu festival. The festival takes place on the eighth day of the bright (waxing) hal...

  (12th century?)  Nimbarka Sanaka Sampraday, one of the four Vaishnava ascetic orders, was founded by an ascetic, philosopher, and devotee ...

  About 90 miles south of Delhi, in the Braj area of Uttar Pradesh, is a city and holy location (tirtha). Mathura is famous for being th...

Krishna's infancy mythology is centered on themes of forgetfulness and latent divinity. Because they are ignorant of Krishna's actua...

Festival commemorating the birth of Lord Krishna on the eighth day (ashtami) of the dark (waning) half of the lunar month Bhadrapada (Augu...

  The Yamuna River runs across northern India, just south of the modern city of Delhi. Braj, according to Hindu mythology, is the region whe...