Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 3
येन गोत्रभिदा गोत्रा विपक्षा हेलया कृताः । भवेत्कुंठितसामर्थ्यः स कथं गिरिमात्रके
yena gotrabhidā gotrā vipakṣā helayā kṛtāḥ | bhavetkuṃṭhitasāmarthyaḥ sa kathaṃ girimātrake
ज्याने ‘गोवर्धनधारी’ होऊन विरोधी गोत्रांना केवळ क्रीडेत तुच्छ केले, त्याचे सामर्थ्य दगडाएवढ्या पर्वतामुळे कसे कुंठित होईल?
Unnamed sage (context: speaking to Lopāmudrā)
Tirtha: Govardhana (allusive)
Type: peak
Listener: Lopāmudrā
Scene: A rhetorical tableau: Parāśara gestures as if pointing to an imagined scene of Kṛṣṇa lifting Govardhana, juxtaposed with a tiny rocky hill symbolizing the current ‘giri-mātraka’.
FAQs
For the Divine, even great obstacles are small; apparent crises are often insignificant before supreme power.
Kāśī remains the contextual frame, though this verse uses a Govardhana allusion rather than naming a Kāśī tirtha.
None; it is a theological argument by analogy.