Dwarka is accepted to have been the main capital of Gujarat. The city's name in a real sense implies gateway.Dwarka has likewise been alluded to over its timeas"Mokshapuri","Dwarkamati", and "Dwarkavati". It is referenced in the old ancient amazing time of the Mahabharata. According to legend, Krishna settled here after he crushed and killed his uncle Kansa at Mathura. This fanciful record of Krishna's relocation to Dwarka from Mathura is firmly connected with the way of life of Gujarat.Krishna is likewise said to have recovered 12 yojanas or 96 square kilometers (37 sq mi) of land from the ocean to make Dwarka.

Dwarka was laid out as the capital in Saurashtra by the Vedic Indians during the Puranaic.[citation needed] The Yadavas, who had relocated from Mathura, laid out their realm here when the city was known as "Kaushathali". It was during this period that the city went through modifying and was named Dwarka.[7] A cordial populace of locals likewise incited Krishna to settle at Dwarka when he chose, subsequent to battling Jarasandha, the ruler of Magadh, to withdraw from Mathura. The realm, otherwise called the Yaduvanshi realm, was laid out by Uugrasena, father of Kansa the then ruler and later Krishna thrived and broadened its domain.[8] It is said that Krishna directed the organization of his realm from Dwarka while living with his family in Bet Dwarka.[9] The city's Dwarkadhish Temple devoted to Krishna was initially worked something like a long time back, however was obliterated by Mahmud Begada rulers and consequently revamped in the sixteenth 100 years. The sanctuary is likewise the area of Dwaraka maţha, additionally called Sharada Matha/Peeth and "western peeth",[10][note 1] one of the four peeths (Sanskrit: "strict focus") laid out by Adi Shankaracharya. As a significant journey community for Hindus, Dwarka has a few remarkable sanctuaries, including Rukmini Devi Temple, Gomti Ghat, and Bet Dwarka. There is likewise a beacon at the land end point of Dwarka.

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Archeological examinations at Dwarka, both on shore and seaward in the Arabian Sea, have been performed by the Archeological Survey of India. The main examinations did ashore in 1963 uncovered numerous artefacts.[11] Excavations done at two destinations on the toward the ocean side of Dwarka exposed lowered settlements, a huge stone-constructed breakwater, and three-sided stone anchors with three openings. The settlements are as outside and inside walls, and post strongholds. From the typological grouping of the anchors it is gathered that Dwarka had prospered as a port during the time of the Middle realms of India.[6] Coastal disintegration was presumably the reason for the obliteration of what was an old port.[6]

Dwarka is referenced in the copper engraving dated 574 AD of Simhaditya, the Maitraka tradition clergyman of Vallabhi. He was the child of Varahdas, the lord of Dwarka. The close by Bet Dwarka island is a strict journey site and a significant archeological site of the Late Harappan period, with one thermoluminescence date of 1570 BC.