How to Cite
Suganya Anandakichenin. (2022). ‘The Victorious Umbrella Called Govardhana’: The ‘Sacred’ Hill in the Eyes of the Āḻvārs and the Śrīvaiṣṇava commentators: Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Journal of Vaishnava Studies, 23(2), 67–90. Retrieved from https://ivsjournal.com/index.php/jvs/article/view/337
Abstract
The govardhana-dhāraṇa (‘the lifting of Govardhana [hill]’) episode is one of the most significant of Kṛṣṇa’s plays, shown by two facts: the canonical Vaiṣṇava texts such as the Harivaṃśa, the Viṣṇu- and the Bhāgavatapurāṇas mention and describe it in some detail; and the sort of worship it elicitseven nowadays among the devotees.
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