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govardhana

गोवर्धन govardhana

The hill that Krishna lifted on one finger for seven days to shelter the people of Vraja from Indra's storm (Bhagavata Purana, book 10).

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  • Who is Krishna? Deities

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

  • The Char Dham Temples

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

  • What is Diwali? Worship

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

  • Aniconic Forms: Shaligrama and Yantra Deities

    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.

  • The Book of the Lord Treatise

    …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 …

  • The Samaya Tradition Treatise

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

  • The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise

    …n how the Kanchi peetham is counted) Shankaracharya mathas — the Puri Govardhana Math in Odisha, the Dwarka Sharada Peetham in Gujarat, the Jyotirmath in Uttarakhand — have navigated the modern period with vary…

  • The Six Amnayas Treatise

    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 .

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