Giriraj Govardhan

Sacred hill · Govardhan hill, Govardhan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh 281502

The hill Krishna lifted on the little finger of his left hand to shelter the people of Braj from Indra's rain. For pilgrims Giriraj is not a place but Krishna himself: stones of the hill are worshipped as his form, and the whole ridge is walked around rather than climbed.