Danta Dhavan Tila
Nand Maharaja would sit on this small hill tila and clean his teeth (danta-dhavan) with a twig.
Nand Baba's Residence
Around the base of Danta-dhavan-tila stood the residences of Nand as well as those of his brothers and relatives. The ruins of these houses can still be seen today, even from a distance.
Nand-bhavan
The Supreme Lord Shri Krishna and Yogmaya took birth as twins from the womb of Mother Yashoda in her room in Nand's palace. They were born at midnight on Astami (the eighth day after the full moon) in the month of Bhadra when the star (nakshatra) known as Rohini was visible in the sky. One can take darshan of Yogmaya here. Shrimad-Bhagavata vividly describes how the most fortunate Nand Baba became very joyful upon receiving a son. After the ceremony known as nadicheda-samskara had been performed, in which the umbilical cord is cut, baby Krishna was bathed and so on. Nand Baba then called the brahmanas to perform the various purificatory rituals and other rites of childbirth.[3] Shri Raghupati Upadhyay says: "In a world frightened by birth and death, some people take shelter of the Srutis, some of the Smrits and some of the Mahabharat. But I pay my homage to Shri Nandrai, in whose courtyard Parabrahma is playing as a child.” .[4]
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Here, the naked babies Krishna and Balram wrestled with each other. The gopis encouraged Them to wrestle by offering to give the winner a laddu. At this, the two boys, each desiring to defeat the other, began to wrestle. Today, Gopeshwar Mahadev is here.