Dwarka is situated in the extreme west of the Saurashtra peninsula on the Arabian Sea. It is a connected with railway station on the Ahmedabad-Okha broad gauge railway line, about 137-km from Jamnagar, 217 km from Rajkot and 378 km from Ahmedabad.
A state highway with Jamnagar and Okha also connects it. Nearest airport is Jamnagar. Dwarka was known as the city of God Krishna. Shree Krishna came here from Mathura along with some Yadav families and established his own empire Dwarka. Scientists researched on that and have found some facts.
Dwarka is derived from 'Dwar', Dwar means a door and in ancient times its flourishing port was considered to be the gateway to the main land. As 'Ka' means 'Brahma' its means gateway to Moksha of soul. It is called Dwarkamati and Dwarkavati. Being adopted home and capital of Shri Krishna after he left Mathura. It is held in such a high esteem as a place of Hindu pilgrimage that it is considered to be one of the four principle holy places or chardham, it is also known as Mokshapuri.
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