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  Vrindavan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bhagavata Purana describes Krishna's early childhood pastimes in Vrindavan forest wherein he, his brother Balarama, and his cowherd friends stole butter, engaged in childhood pranks and fought with demons.
Vrindavan has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 73%, and female literacy is 55%.
In Vrindavan, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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 Sri Vrindavan Dham
Vrindavan is synonymous with the childhood pastimes of Sri Krishna.
Madan Mohan Temple on the riverside is the oldest structure in Vrindavan.
Vrindavan is hot in summers, with day temperatures climbing to 45° C. Winters are comfortable, at an average of 32° C in the day and 14° C at night.
www.vrindavan-dham.com /vrindavana.php   (4602 words)

  
 Vrindavan,India Vrindavan,Vrindavan Temples   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vrindavan, around 15 km from Mathura, is a major place of pilgrimage, on the banks of Yamuna.
Vrindavan is situated in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh around 151 km south of Delhi.
Vrindavan is connected to Mathura and all other places of interest in Braj by bus services and is on direct road link from Delhi and Agra.
www.pilgrimage-india.com /north-india-pilgrimage/vrindavan.html   (2091 words)

  
 MATHURA - VRINDAVAN
Vrindavan, just 15 km from Mathura, is another major place of pilgrimage.
Vrindavan today, is noted for its numerous temples.
The deities at the temple are popularly known as the Chhote Radha Raman.
www.mathura-vrindavan.com /mathura/vrindavan.htm   (298 words)

  
 Vrindavan, Vrindavan City Information
Vrindavan is synonymous with the innocent mirth and child like playfulness of Shri Krishna.
Vrindavan, the dusty little town known for the temples, big and small, famous and remote strewn all over the place.
Vrindavan, is still a transcendental world, a place of Krishna's leela, (play), of deep eroticism and an archetypal connection to nature.
www.cultureholidays.com /cities/vrindavan.htm   (456 words)

  
 Vrindavan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vrindavan and Mathura are one of the holiest places of Vaihsnavites.
Mathura is the birthplace of Lord Krishna and Vrindavan is where he performed his childhood and youth was spent.
Among the temples are the Krishna Balarama temple, the one built by Swami Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada, who founded the ISKCON movement, the Govindaji temple, the Kesi ghat, where Krishna is believed to have killed the demon Kesi, the Madan Mohan temple, the Rahda-Vallabh, Radha-Gopinath and Radha-Raman temples and the Banke-Bihari temple.
www.goindiago.com /travel/pilgrimage/vrndavan.htm   (132 words)

  
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Vrindavan is a unit of ‘Vrindavan Kripa Pvt Ltd’, which is the dream project of husband and wife team Praveen Kumar and Beena.
Vrindavan’s winning characteristics is - we meet the special dietary requirements of people looking for select regional Indian food, halal items and hard to get Jain cuisine at a very short notice.
A prominent feature of the restaurant is the door delivery service – the term ‘door’ delivery is used instead of ‘home’ as we deliver not only to the local residents but also to customers at their local work place and to tourists staying at furnished apartments and hotels around the area.
www.vrindavan.com.au   (420 words)

  
 Mathura Vrindavan, India
Vrindavan, a village - once noted for its fragrant groves, is where he spent an eventful youth.
Vrindavan is within the jurisdiction of Mathura and still continues to exist.
Because Mathura and Vrindavan are intimately connected with Krishna eternally, it is said that Lord Krishna never leaves Vrindavan (vrindavanam parityajya padam ekam na gacchati).
www.mathura-vrindavan.com   (558 words)

  
 Status of Widows of Vrindavan and Varanasi: A Comparative Study
Table 1.1 for Vrindavan indicates that while 7.5% of those living in rehabilitation homes were in the age group 60-69, the corresponding figure for boarding houses was 38.75%.
In table 1.2, for Vrindavan 81.25% of those in rehabilitation homes, 63.7% of those in boarding houses and 66.25% of those on the streets have been married before the age of 20.
In all the three cases in Vrindavan it is seen that more than half the respondents had an age difference of more than 9 but less than 24 years from their spouses -- 57.5%, 66.25% and 46.25% in rehabilitation homes, boarding houses and on the streets respectively (Table 1.6).
griefandrenewal.com /widows_study.htm   (10097 words)

  
 Vrindavan India,Vrindavan Temple Tour,Vrindavan Pilgrimage Travel,Vrindavan Tour India,Vrindavan Pilgrimage ...
Vrindavan, just 15 km from Mathura, is another major place of pilgrimage in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the northern part of India.
Vrindavan is known for its numerous Hindu temples - both ancient and modern.
The Jaipur Temple is a richly embellished and opulent temple in Vrindavan.
www.rrindia.com /uttar-pradesh/vrindavan-tour.html   (518 words)

  
 Vrindavan Travel, Tour Packages, Tours, Hotels, Holidays Or Vacation In Vrindavan
Madan Mohana Temple - Madan Mohan Temple on the riverside is the oldest structure in Vrindavan.
Akbar's visit to Vrindavan in the year 1570, he gave permission for four temples to be built by the Gaudiya Vaisnavas, which were Madana-Mohana, Govindaji, Gopinatha and Jugal Kisore.
Vrindavan is connected to Mathura and all other places of interest in Braj by bus services and is placed on direct road link from Delhi and Agra.
us.makemytrip.com /destination/vrindavan/vrindavan1.htm   (921 words)

  
 Sivananda Yoga Teachers? Training Course in Europe, Yoga Europe, Yoga Teacher Training, International, Hatha Yoga, ...
Vrindavan is located 150 km from Delhi and can be reached in 2.5 hours on Highway NH2, one of the most modern roads of India.
Vrindavan is one of the holiest cities of India.
The Ashram is the seat of the 500-year-old Goswami Vaishnava tradition of the nearby Sri Radha Raman Temple, one of the oldest temples of Vrindavan.
www.sivananda.org /ttceurope/vrindavan/en/attc-vrindavan.php   (1652 words)

  
 Vrindavan Travel Guide, Tours to Vrindavan, Travel Vrindavan, Vrindavan City Guide
Vrindavan holds a place of special importance in the history of Indian culture and is particularly of great importance in the evolution of Hindu philosophy and mythological legend.
Vrindavan is very well connected by road and rail and the communication from Delhi and Agra to the city of Vrindavan is extremely good.
Vrindavan has some of the finest temples in India and you would be surely awestruck to see the beauty of this wonderful pieces of architecture.
www.travelgodelhi.com /delhi-sight-seeing/about-vrindavan.htm   (348 words)

  
 Vrindavan
In the city of Vrindavan, widows face a life that is so abysmal and cruel that it is difficult to imagine in the modern world.
Vrindavan has thousands of temples dedicated to Lord Krishna.
They are either admonished by the families of their former husbands or are literally dropped off by relatives that no longer want them.
www.whiterainbow.com /Vrindavan.htm   (271 words)

  
 VNN World - Vrindavan Future Projects
The Architecture of Vrindavan is under the influence of Jaipur Style, therefore the newly built buildings and old renovated buildings, gates, arches, pillars and windows should be built in accordance to the Jaipur style.
Vrindavan was manifested as a forest as it is clear by name but today in Vrindavan there is only 10% of the land for parks and besides it there is 100 hectares of forest land.
This task in Vrindavan is under care of Water Supply Corporation as it is in the whole state of U.P. Throug this project the 19 drains which are ending in the Yamuna river, will be taped and sent to the sewage system through two pump stations.
www.vnn.org /world/WD9901/WD16-2859.html   (2103 words)

  
 Temples of Vrindavan,Temples in Vrindavan,Vrindavan Temple Tour,Temples Travel in Vrindavan Near Agra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The original Deity of Madana-mohana was taken to Karauli in Rajasthan for safety during the attack on Vrindavan by the soldiers of the fanatical Muslim Emperor, Aurangzeb.
The principal deities of this temple are Krishna, his brother Balram and Radha (Krishna's consort.) Adjoining the temple is the samadhi of Shri Prabhupada, the founder of the ISKCON sect, built in pure white marble.
One of Vrindavan's most opulent temples, it was built by the Maharaja of Jaipur, Sawai Madhav, in 1917 after 30 years of labour.
www.taj-mahal-india-travel.com /monuments-places-to-visit/temples-of-vrindavan.html   (1289 words)

  
 NEW VRINDAVAN GALLERIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Vrindavan is a holy place in India, about 90 miles southeast of Delhi.
Vrindavan has thousands of temples to Lord Krishna, and many pilgrims come to pay homage to the Lord.
New Vrindavan has grown considerably and it is home for many devotees wishing to live a more simpler way of life.
www.geocities.com /radhakrishna108/nvgall.html   (239 words)

  
 Vrindavan tour,vrindavan tourist attraction,vrindavan travel,tourism in vrindavan,pilgrimage tour,india,uttar ...
Vrindavan is situated on the New Delhi–Chennai and New Delhi–Mumbai main railway line.
Whatever may be the case, Vrindavan is primarily a place of temples.
Little now remain of the legendary forests and the river has meandered away from most of Vrindavan’s bathing ghats, but the Krishna effect is still there in the large number of pilgrims visiting this town.
www.tourmyindia.com /attraction/vrindavan.html   (1382 words)

  
 vrindavan.com | Sharing the Vrindavan Experience
Vrindavan Realizations is a place for sanga, association with bhaktas.
What a place Vrindavan is! Anyone could loose his or her heart after entering the first step into the holy land of Vrindavan.
While staying in Vrindavan, at times I would walk to a temple in town after mangala arati.
www.vrindavan.com   (594 words)

  
 Vrindavan, Krishna, India, nature conservation by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
During the 1960s Vrindavan was among the cleanest towns in India, with streets washed twice a day and clean water available to all.
Pilgrims on this route, who are instructed to touch their feet to Vrindavan soil, are forced to walk for several kilometres on burning asphalt while dodging traffic.
In one corner of Vrindavan two toddlers join forces to lug a half-filled bucket of water to care for "their" tree in a tennis-court-sized park built on the site of a former dump.
www.sochaczewski.com /ARTvrindavan.html   (660 words)

  
 Vaisnava.cz - The Hare Krisna Inspiration
Vrindavan is said to have 5000 temples and shrines of all different dimensions.
Vrindavan's glory was regained by the effort of great devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and especially by "Six Goswamis from Vrindavan".
We shouldn't forget that Vrindavan area is near Rajasthan desert, which is growing partially due to cutting of the trees.
www.vaisnava.cz /clanek_en.php3?no=180   (7327 words)

  
 SikhSpectrum.com Monthly Vrindavan Widows Are Still Sexually Exploited -- Study
West Bengal government sponsored survey on widows in Vrindavan, the findings of which were made public on Friday confirmed circumstantial evidence of continuing "sexual exploitation" of widows in the holy town.
The chairman of the state commission for women, Bela Dutta Gupta, and former CPI (M) MP Malini Bhattacharya were part of the team that investigated the plight of widows in Vrindavan.
Life in Vrindavan, though distressed, seemed to hold a sense a dignity and freedom to them than the marginalised existence in their families.
www.sikhspectrum.com /012003/widows_subrata.htm   (561 words)

  
 History of Friends of Vrindavan
The pilgrimage town of Vrindavan is the focus for a unique experiment in conservation, in which environmentalists and religious leaders are working side by side to reverse the dramatic decline of its forests, wildlife and river.
One was when the teenage daughter of the head priest at Vrindavan's most orthodox temple won a nature painting competition and declared publicly at her award ceremony that she wanted to spend her life working to restore the environment of Vrindavan.
At WWF India's 25th Anniversary Congress in 1994, a declaration written by a senior religious figure of Vrindavan, Shrivatsa Goswami, was presented to the President of India along with a sacred Kadam tree from Vrindavan.
www.fov.org.uk /history/history.html   (1336 words)

  
 Vrindavan Darshan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
May Vrindavan, which is decorated with blades of grass that bear the charming, gracefully marked footprints and playfull toenail prints of the youthfull divine couple of Vraja, who are glorious as a monsoon cloud and lightning, be my shelter.
Vrindavan is iluminated by numberless moons of spiritual bliss.
Established in 1864 by Swami Haridas, this temple is one of the most popular temples in Vrindavan, especially during Jhulan Yatra, the swing festival in the month of Shravan (July/August).
www.iskconvrindavan.com /vrindavan.htm   (624 words)

  
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Vrindavan town is an important pilgrim centre located on river Yamuna.
Thus the total wastewater flow reaching Yamuna river from Vrindavan town was about 4.5 mld contributing about 1000 kg.
The topography of Vrindavan is such that the difference in lowest and highest ground levels is about 20 M. The general slope of the town is towards the river Yamuna.
yap.nic.in /vrindavan.asp   (360 words)

  
 Mathura Vrindavan,Mathura Vrindavan Guide,Mathura Vrindavan City Information Guide
"Vrindavan is 10 km from Mathura and it is associated with the childhood exploits of Lord Krishna."
Brajbhoomi - The city of Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, the nucleus of Brajbhoomi, is located at a distance of 145 km south-east of Delhi and 58 km north-west of Agra.
Vrindavan - The City Of Temples - Vrindavan, around 15 km from Mathura, is a major place of pilgrimage, on the banks of Yamuna.
www.indiantravelportal.com /mathura-vrindavan   (690 words)

  
 Sivananda Yoga Teachers´ Training Course in Europe, Yoga Europe, Yoga Teacher Training, International, Hatha Yoga, ...
Vrindavan is one of the holiest places in India.
The Jai Singh Ghera Ashram is the former Sadhana (spiritual) Vrindavan residence of the famous king Jai Singh, located directly on the banks of the holy Yamuna river.
At this time of the year it is warm during the days in Vrindavan but chilly at night and in the morning.
www.sivananda.org /ttceurope/vrindavan/en   (1439 words)

  
 Bless us to serve Vrindavan
Vrindavan is a very important place for Hindus and Vaishnavas in particular.
Vrindavan needs and urgent attention by the devotees of Lord Krishna as the physical Vrindavan’s condition is deteriorating each day.
Vrindavan Municipality has its own limitation for not having sufficient equipment for the street cleaning and garbage collection.
www.vina.cc /stories/DHAM/2004/9/serve.vrindavan.html   (569 words)

  
 Pilgrimage guide for Vrindavan
Vrindavan is the most important holy place for all devotees of Lord Krishna, who come here from all over the world.
When Chaitanya Mahaprabhu came to Vrindavan it was a big jungle and only some older Village people remembered the places connected with different pastimes of Krishna has they had received it from their family tradition.
Thus the sweetness of madhurya rasa transformed into the magnanimity of unconditional mercy distribution of the Vrindavan mellows, trough the Samkirtan lila and the audharya mood of the Yuga Avatar for the present Age.
www.vrindavan.org /English/HolyPl/Pilgrimage1.html   (3411 words)

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