Site icon Rana Safvi

Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj

سبک بر داشت آن کوه گران را
چو ماه نو بر انگشت آسمان را

Lightly he lifted that heavy mountain /
Like the sky aloft on the new moon’s finger.

(Lala Hakim Chand “Nudrat”, 1750s, Thanesar, in a famous double allusion to Krishna’s lifting Govardhan and the shaqq al-qamar)

( selection and translation by Prashant Keshavmurthy)

Painting by Miskin in The Met
Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj”, Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))
ca. 1590–95

Exit mobile version