{"id":64733,"date":"2024-02-03T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T07:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=64733"},"modified":"2024-02-03T00:36:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T04:36:50","slug":"description-of-pastime-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/description-of-pastime-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Description of Pastime Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64734\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64734 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Govardhana.jpeg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Giriraja-Govardhana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Vrindavana is in all respects the most prominent of the forests in Vraja-mandala, and is the most auspicious of all auspicious places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Sriman Giriraja-Govardhana, a pastime place within Vraja\u2019s area, supplies the cows with water, tender grass and other items; offers the gopas fruits, edible roots, water, resting places and so forth; and provides the gopis secluded forest bowers, caves and so on for their unimpeded enjoyment. By this Giriraja-Govardhana increases their joy, and thus lives up to his name Govardhana<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>. By doing this, he is also offering abundant assistance in Sri Krishna\u2019s pastimes. Thus it is fully appropriate to call him Krida-giri<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">There is a bathing-place (ghata) called Nilamandapika and a cave called Manikandali at Govardhana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The word go refers to cows, gopas and gopis, and vardhana means &#8220;increases&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> The pastime ground Giriraja-Govardhana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cSri Sri Radha Krishna Ganoddesa Dipika\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/sri-sri-radha-krishna-ganoddesa-dipika-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Vrindavana is in all respects the most prominent of the forests in Vraja-mandala, and is the most auspicious of all auspicious places. &nbsp; Sriman Giriraja-Govardhana, a pastime place within Vraja\u2019s area, supplies the cows with &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/description-of-pastime-places\/\" aria-label=\"Description of Pastime Places\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":64734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-64733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-radha-krishna-ganoddesa-dipika-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 17:57:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}