govardhana

The boy who lifts Mount Govardhana on one finger to shelter the cowherds from a storm sent by Indra.

In the west is the matha at Dwaraka , beside the Dwarka dham. In the east is the Govardhana matha at Puri.

This is the night most people mean when they say Diwali. Govardhana Puja , or Annakut ("a mountain of food"), follows.

The Govardhana shila , a stone from the hill Krishna is said to have lifted, is worshipped as Krishna himself, above all by his Vaishnava devotees.

…s caught with it on his face, the boy who holds up the whole of Mount Govardhana on one finger for seven days to shelter the village from a storm, the youth whose flute calls the cowherd women, the gopis , out …

Govardhana Math at Puri in Odisha (the eastern matha), with Jagannatha as the presiding deity.

Lütt, records that of the Govardhana matha "no genuine historical documents are known" older than the Maratha period.

Purva amnaya corresponds, in this correspondence, to the Govardhana Pitha at Puri (Odisha) - the eastern matha, associated with the Rig Veda , whose first Shankaracharya in the lineage was Padmapada .