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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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TRANSLATION
 | [The cowherd boys said:] O Rāma, Rāma, mighty-armed one! O Kṛṣṇa, destroyer of the miscreants! Not far from here is a very great forest filled with rows of palm trees.
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PURPORT
| | Como se afirma no Śrī Varāha Purāṇa:
asti govardhanaṁ nāma
kṣetraṁ parama-durlabham
mathurā-paścime bhāge
adūrād yojana-dvayam
“Not far from the western side of Mathurā, at a distance of two yojanas [sixteen miles or 25.7 kilometers], is the holy place named Govardhana, which is most difficult to attain.”
| | | It is also stated in the Varāha Purāṇa:
asti tāla-vanaṁ nāma
dhenakāsura-rakṣitam
mathurā-paścime bhāge
adūrād eka-yojanam
“Not far from the western side of Mathurā, one yojana away [eight miles or 12.8 kilometers], is the forest known as Tālavana, which was guarded by Dhenukāsura.”
| | | Thus it appears that the Tālavana forest is located midway between Mathurā and Govardhana Hill. The forest of Tālavana is described in the Śrī Hari-vaṁśa as follows:
sa tu deśaḥ samaḥ snigdhaḥ
su-mahān kṛṣṇa-mṛttikaḥ
darbha-prāyaḥ sthulī-bhūto
loṣṭra-pāṣāṇa-varjitaḥ
“The land there is even, smooth and very expansive. The earth is black, densely covered with darbha grass and devoid of stones and pebbles.”
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