Govardhan Math

Purvamnaya Sri Govardhana Pitham or Govardhan Math (ଗୋବର୍ଦ୍ଧନ ମଠ) is one amongst the four cardinal pithams established by the philosopher-saint Adi Shankara to preserve and propagate Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta, the doctrine of non-dualism, is Located in Puri in Odisha, India ,

it is the Eastern Āmnāya Pītham amongst the four pithams, with the others being

the Sringeri Śārada Pīṭhaṃ (Karnataka) in the South,

the Dvārakā Śāradā Pītham (Gujarat) in the West, and

the Badari Jyotirmaṭha Pīṭhaṃ (Uttarakhand) in the North.

It is associated with the Jagannath temple. Their Vedantic mantra, or Mahavakya, is Prajñānam brahma (Consciousness is supreme being), and as per the tradition initiated by Adi Shankara, it holds authority over the Rigveda. The head of the matha is called Shankaracharya; the title derives from Adi Shankara .

The deity here is Jagannath (Vishnu),and the goddess is Vimala (Bhairavi). There are Shri Vigrahas of Govardhananatha Krishna and Ardhanareshvara Shiva installed by Adi Shankara.

The whole of the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent is considered the territory of Sri Govardhan Peeth. This includes the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh till Rajamundry, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Telangana, Tripura, Mizoram, and Uttar Pradesh till Prayag. The countries Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan, as well as the Southeast Asian and Tibetan regions, are also considered spiritual territory of the math. Puri, Prayagraj, Gaya, and Varanasi are some of the holy places under this Math.