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DWARAKA (Tiru Dwarakai)
 
This Divya shetram is located in the Kathiawar peninsula of Gujarat. Dwaraka is associated with the legends of Sri Krishna.
 
The moolavar is Dwarakadeesan also known as Kalyana Narayanan and the Thayar Kalyana Nachiyar, Rukmini. The Theertham is Gomathi Nadhi also called Samudra sangamam and the Vimanam Hemakoota Vimanam.
 
Legend has it that Krishna built this city with the aid of Viswakarma.  The Dwarakadeesh temple built by Sambha the grand son of Krishna, has five-storied tower and pilgrims enter through the Swarga Dwara and exit through Moksha Dwara.
 
Pilgrims take dip in the sea called Sangamam, where the Gomati River merges the sea.  Bet-Dwaraka is a small island, where Kuchela lived and also where Krishna is supposed to have killed the demon Sankhasura. There are shrines for Rukmini, Trivikrama, Devaki, Jambavati and Lakshmi Narayanan.
Azhwar Mangalaasaasanam:
Periaazhwar ? 333, 398, 399, 415, 472
Andaal ? 507, 541, 594, 625
Tondaraipodiaazhwar ? 916
Tirumangai Azhwar ? 1504, 1524
Tirumazhisaiazhwar ? 2452
Nammaazhwar ? 3260 (pasuram number as found in Naalaayira Divya prabhandam)
 
Archaeological excavations reveal the existence of the earlier city submerged in the sea.

Om Namo Narayanaya
Padmashri Sampathkumar


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