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Dakor is in Kaira District of ((Gujarat)). Lord Krishna believed to have reveled himself at this place after leaving his Dwarka abode. According to the story popular here, a Krishna devotee named Bholanath used to walk all the way to Dwarka from Dakor on every full moon night to worship his beloved Krishna. The all-knowing God noticed the difficulties of this devotte and therfore he told him that he need not walk all the way from now because he had decided to stay at Dakor (Dhankpuri of olden times). So God accompanied him to Dakor, it is said. There is a stone-idol of Ranchhodrai (Krishna) at Dakor. It is worth mentioning here that Krishna is known Ranchhodrai at Dwarka and Dakor because he had run away from battle when Kalyavan attacked him as an ally of Jarasandh. There is also a story attatched to the stone idol at Dakor. It says that the priests of Dwarka knew that Bholanath was a poor man. So they told him that he should either pay for the stone idol in gold or return it. At that time, the only golden ornament the poor devotee had was his wife's nose ring. When the idol and the nose ring were placed in the scales they were found to be equal in weight. That is how Krishna changed his residence from Dwarka to Dakor.

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