Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
During Krishna’s journey from Nandagrama to Mathura, the gopis continued to follow the chariot from one village to the next and they eventually arrived at the village of Si-grama. The Bhakti-ratnakara says, “Nearby Paraso is a town called Si-grama. Let me describe briefly how it was named. Krishna became impatient here seeing the condition of the gopis and told them again and again that He would return quickly from Mathura. The name of Si-grama comes from the word ‘sighra’ which means ‘quickly’. Krishna then left on the road to Mathura while the gopis, bereft of Krishna’s association, were left for dead. The torrent of tears shed by all the gopis mixed with the anjana (mascara) from their eyes and flowed down their breasts to the ground. The combined tears formed a river which everyone said looked just like the Yamuna. This is the place where the gopis cried in ecstatic love. Only the most fortunate persons see this place.” Although Akrura tried to avoid the main highway to Mathura so that the Vrajavasis could not know which road he was traversing, fearing they would try to stop him from taking Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, nevertheless, he could not avoid the gopis who appeared to be following the chariot wherever it went.
