govinda
गोविन्द govindaA name of Vishnu and of Krishna, the finder and protector of cows; the divine invoked in the refrain of Bhaja Govindam.
Where this term appears
- The Dashavatara: The Ten Avatars of Vishnu Deities
…ny one text gave the ten their enduring popular order, it is the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva, composed in the late twelfth century, whose opening Dashavatara hymn salutes each descent in turn.
- What is an Avatar? Deities
…nduring popular form by the poet Jayadeva, whose twelfth-century Gita Govinda opens with a hymn saluting Vishnu in each of his ten descents, and it is through such devotional verse, more than any single scriptu…
- Who is Krishna? Deities
…arrival is the 12th century CE, in Jayadeva's Sanskrit lyric the Gita Govinda , the "Song of the Cowherd." There Radha becomes Krishna's beloved in full, their union and separation rendered with an intensity th…
- Ishvara, Bhagavan and Brahman: How Hinduism Conceives God Essentials
The Bhaja Govindam , with its urgent refrain to worship Govinda, Govinda, Govinda.
- The Vishnu Sahasranama Worship
Govinda comes at the hundred-and-eighty-seventh and returns at the five-hundred-and-thirty-ninth.
- Tirupati: The Temple of Venkateshwara Temples
Srinivasa and Govinda belong to the older devotional and ritual language of the place.
- Vishnu's Emblems: Conch, Discus, Mace and Lotus Deities
Keshava , Narayana , Madhava , Govinda , and on through twenty-four forms of Vishnu, are distinguished from one another by nothing but which hand holds which emblem.
- Bhaja Govindam: the hammer that shatters delusion Journal
The first blow bhaja govindaṃ bhaja govindaṃ govindaṃ bhaja mūḍhamate, samprāpte sannihite kāle nahi nahi rakṣati ḍukṛñ-karaṇe.