The Golden City of Dwarka

Kamsa's father-in-law Jarasandha attacked Mathura seventeen times. Rather than bleed his people, Krishna moved them west and raised the city of Dwarka on land reclaimed from the ocean — earning the name Ranchhod, the one who left the battlefield.

Dwarka is described as a city of gold and crystal with wide roads, gardens and assembly halls, governed not as a monarchy but with a council of elders.

Here Krishna married Rukmini, who wrote asking him to rescue her from an unwanted marriage, and later Satyabhama, Jambavati and others, each with her own story.