Adi-lila, Chapter 10 321
Srinatha pandita—prabhura krpara bhdajana
yanra krsna-seva dekhi’ vasa tri-bhuvana
SYNONYMS
$Srinatha pandita—of the name Srinatha Pandita; prabhura—of the Lord; kepara—
of mercy; bhdjana—receiver; yaénra—whose; kesaa-seva—worship of Lord Krsna;
dekhi’—seeing; vasa—subjugated; tri-bhuvana—all the three worlds.
TRANSLATION
Srinatha, Pandita, the forty-ninth branch, was the beloved recipient of all the
mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Everyone in the three worlds was astonished
to see how he worshiped Lord Krsna.
PURPORT
About one and a half miles away from Kumarahatta, or Kamarhatti, which
is a few miles from Calcutta, is a village known as Kancadapada which was
the home of Sri Sivananda Sena. There he constructed a temple of Sri Gaura-
gopala. Another temple was established there with Sri Radha-Krsna maiirtis
by Srinatha Pandita. The Deity of that temple is named Sri Krsna Raya. The temple
of Krsna Raya, which was constructed in the year 1708 saka@bda by a prominent
Zamindar named Nimai Mullik of Pathuriya-ghata in Calcutta, is very large. There is
a big courtyard in front of the temple, and there are residential quarters'for visitors
and good arrangements for cooking prasdda. The entire courtyard is surrounded by
very high boundary walls, and the temple is almost as big as the Mahesa temple.
Inscribed on a tablet are the names of Srinatha Pandita and his father and grand-
father and the date of construction of the temple. Srinatha Pandita, one of the
disciples of Advaita Prabhu, was the spiritual master of the third son of Sivananda
Sena, who was known as Paramananda Kavikarnapura. It is supposed to be during
the time of Kavikarnaptra that the Krsna Raya Deity was installed. According to
hearsay, Virabhadra Prabhu, the son of Nityananda Prabhu, brought a big stone
from Mursidabad from which three Deities were carved—namely, the Radhavallabha
vigraha of Vallabhapura, the Syamasundara vigraha of Khadadaha and the Sri Krsna
Raya vigraha of Kancadapada. The home of Sivananda Sena was situated on the bank
of the Ganges near an almost ruined temple. It is said that the same Nimai Mullik
of Calcutta saw this broken-down temple of Krsna Raya while he was going to
Benares and thereafter constructed the present temple.
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