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Bahulavana Forest


At Bahulavana there is the small Bahula temple with bas-relief Deities of Krishna, Yamaraja, and Bahula carved in the wall, on the south bank of Krishna Kunda. The Padma Purana narrates the story of Bahula. Dharmaraja once took the form of a lion and approached the cow named Bahula to eat her. Bahula asked that she first be able to feed her calf some milk. She said that she would return. The lion relented and the cow went off to feed her calf. When she returned she found that Krishna had appeared there and the lion was really Dharmaraja. It is stated in the Mathura-mahatmya by Rupa Gosvami that Bahula became one of Krishna’s wives because she displayed the good quality of truthfulness.

It is said that Lord Krishna would come here with Balarama and the cowherd boys to tend the cows. Near the Bahula temple is the Banke Bihari Temple. On the north bank of Krishna Kunda is the Madana Mohan Temple.

There are two kunds here called Sankarsana Kunda (Balarama Kunda) and Krishna Kunda. Seeing and bathing in these kunds gives one the darshan of Laksmi and Krishna. Jahnava Devi, the wife of Lord Nityananda visited the kunda here. It is especially auspicious to bath here in the month of Chaitra (March-April).

Bahulavana forest has a parikrama of 6 km (4½ miles). If you are going to Radha Kunda, to visit this place is a half hour excursion. It is just off the road that goes between Vrindavana and Radha Kunda.

How To Get Here Bahulavana is 7km (5 miles) from Vrindavana. To get to Bahulavana from Vrindavana, you first go to Chatikara and then you get on the road to Radha Kunda. To get to Chatikara you make a right out of the ISKCON temple and drive to where the road meets the Delhi-Agra road. You then get on the road that goes to Radha Kunda. You go past the village here and after about a kilometre you go over some railway tracks. Just after you go over the railway tracks you make a left on the first road that you come to. You go down this road about 3km (2 miles) until you go over a small bridge. At this point you have reached the village of Bahulavana.

Just after going over the bridge you make a right and go about a third of a km (¼ mile). You then make a left and go about 200m and right in front of you is Sankarsana Kunda. The small temple of Bahula is on the other side of Sankarsana Kunda, right next to the constructed ghata.

If you are more than 5km from this place you could ask for the village of Vate (Bati), which many people know this place as.

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