Mathura (study under Virajananda)

Mathurā is a city on the Yamunā River in Uttar Pradesh, north India, in the Braj region. It is where Dayānanda Sarasvatī studied Sanskrit grammar and the Vedas under the blind teacher Virājānanda Dandeeśa in the early 1860s, a formative phase before he founded the Ārya Samāj.