Shloka 3 - Adhyaya 5 - Purva Ardha - Kashi Khanda | Vietnamese | Vedapath

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Skanda Purana — Kashi Khanda, Shloka 3

Devanagari script

येन गोत्रभिदा गोत्रा विपक्षा हेलया कृताः । भवेत्कुंठितसामर्थ्यः स कथं गिरिमात्रके

Transliteration

yena gotrabhidā gotrā vipakṣā helayā kṛtāḥ | bhavetkuṃṭhitasāmarthyaḥ sa kathaṃ girimātrake

Translation

Đấng được gọi là ‘người nâng núi Govardhana’, chỉ trong trò đùa mà khiến các dòng tộc đối nghịch hóa thành hư không—làm sao uy lực của Ngài lại có thể bị cùn mòn vì một ngọn núi chỉ bằng thước đá?

Word by Word

येनby whom/whereby

गोत्रभिदाby the mountain-splitter (Indra)

गोत्राःmountains (Gotras)

विपक्षाःhostile/opposing

हेलयाwith ease/in sport

कृताःwere made

भवेत्would become

कुण्ठितसामर्थ्यःone whose power is blunted

सःhe

कथम्how?

गिरिमात्रकेin/at a mere hill

Speaker

Unnamed sage (context: speaking to Lopāmudrā)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Govardhana (allusive)

Type: peak

Skanda Dialogue

Listener: Lopāmudrā

Visual Art Cues

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’.

Characters & Entities

Govardhana (Gotra)

Hari/Kṛṣṇa (implied by gotrabhid)

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

For the Divine, even great obstacles are small; apparent crises are often insignificant before supreme power.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Kāśī remains the contextual frame, though this verse uses a Govardhana allusion rather than naming a Kāśī tirtha.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it is a theological argument by analogy.