ity uktvaikena hastena
ká¹›tvÄ govardhanÄcalam
dadhÄra lÄ«layÄ viṣṇuÅ›
chatrÄkam iva bÄlakaḥ
iti - thus; uktvÄ - having spoken; ekena - with one; hastena - hand; ká¹›tvÄ - taking; govardhana-acalam - Govardhana Hill; dadhÄra - He held it; lÄ«layÄ - very easily; viṣṇuḥ - Lord Viṣṇu; chatrÄkam - a mushroom; iva - just as; bÄlakaḥ - a child.
Having said this, Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is Viṣṇu Himself, picked up Govardhana Hill with one hand and held it aloft just as easily as a child holds up a mushroom.
It is confirmed in the Hari-vaá¹Å›a that ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa picked up the Govardhana Mountain with His left hand: sa dhá¹›taḥ saá¹…gato meghair giriḥ savyena pÄṇinÄ. “With His left hand He picked up that mountain, which was touching the clouds.†According to ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura, when Lord Kṛṣṇa was preparing to lift Govardhana Hill, a partial expansion of His Yoga-mÄyÄ potency named Saá¹hÄrikÄ« temporarily removed all the rain from the sky so that as He ran very swiftly from the porch of His house to the mountain, neither His turban nor other garments became wet.
