Krishna ruled Dwarka as its king after leaving Mathura. The golden city, built on an island in the western sea, was submerged after the Yadava clan's destruction and Krishna's departure.
Krishna commanded the ocean to yield land, and Vishvakarma, the divine architect, raised Dwarka upon it — a golden city of jeweled palaces and pleasure gardens built in a single night, rivaling Amaravati in splendor.
After the Yadavas destroyed themselves in drunken fratricidal violence at Prabhasa and Krishna departed from the world, the ocean rose and swallowed Dwarka whole — the golden city vanishing beneath the waves as if it had never existed.
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