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=Surasena=

The ancient name of a tract of country in Northern
India, round Muttra. According to the Puranas it was the name of
the grandfather of Krishna, whose history is closely connected with
Muttra. The inhabitants of the tract were called Saurasenas, and
Arrian mentions the Saurasenoi as possessing two large cities, Methora
(Muttra) and Cleisobora or Cyrisgbora (not certainly identified)
while the Jobares river (Jumna) flowed through their territory. Pliny
describes the Jotjianes as flowing between Methora and Carisobora.

* Lassen (Ind. Alt., vol. i, p. 127 n. 3) suggests that this is equivalent to Krishna-
pura, which he places at Agra. Cunningham (Anciefit Geography of India, p. 375)
identifies it with Brindaban. Muttra, Agra, and Brindaban are all on the right bank
of the Jumna. See also M’Crindle, Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and
Arrian, pp. 140-1 and note.

Varaha Mihira, the Sanskrit geographer of the sixth century a.d.,
makes several references to the Saurasenas, who are placed in the
Madhya Desa or ' middle country.' The name has been applied to
a variety of Prakrit, called Saurasena, which appears to have been the
ancestor of the present language described as Western Hindi in the
Linguistic Survey of India, In later times part of this tract was called
Braj or Braj Mandal, a name which still survives (see Muttra
District).

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