Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Kurukshetra

About Kurukshetra — A Brief History

Kurukshetra is one of the most important cities in Hindu sacred geography, sitting in northern Haryana on the road between Karnal and Ambala. According to tradition, the great battle of the Mahabharata was fought on the plain that surrounds the town, and the Bhagavad Gita was spoken by Lord Krishna to Arjuna here on the first day of the eighteen-day war. The town's older name, Dharmakshetra, comes from the very first verse of the Gita, and the Brahma Sarovar in the centre of the city is said to mark the spot where King Kuru, after whom the area is named, ploughed the land to make it sacred.

The Brahma Sarovar, the Sannehit Sarovar, the Jyotisar Tirath where Krishna is said to have spoken the Gita, the Sthaneshwar Mahadev temple and the Bhadrakali Shaktipeeth all draw lakhs of pilgrims through the year, and especially during the Geeta Jayanti Mahotsav each December and the Solar Eclipse Mela. Kurukshetra University, founded in 1956, is one of the largest residential universities in north India and gives the town a strong student presence.

Beyond pilgrimage and education, the local economy depends on wheat, rice and sugarcane from the surrounding canal-irrigated belt, and a few cooperative sugar mills around Pehowa and Shahabad. NH-44 and the Delhi-Amritsar railway pass through, and Kurukshetra is well linked by road to Karnal, Ambala and Patiala. Shree Mahavir Courier's Kurukshetra branches handle the daily run of pilgrim mail, university dispatch, mandi papers and family parcels for the town and the smaller settlements like Pehowa, Shahabad, Ladwa and Pipli every working day, with strong seasonal spikes during Geeta Jayanti and the Solar Eclipse Mela.