326 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta
Gopala Acarya; Gra—and; vipra vanindtha—the brahmana of the name
Vaninatha.
TRANSLATION
The seventy-eighth branch of the original tree was J agannatha Tirtha, the seventy-
ninth was the brahmana Sri Janakinatha, the eightieth was Gopala Acarya, and the
eighty-first was the brahmana Vaninatha.
PURPORT
Jagannatha Tirtha was one of the nine principal sannydsis who were Lord
Caitanya’s associates. Vaninatha Vipra was a resident of Canpahati, a village in the
district of Burdwan near the town of Navadvipa, the police station of Purvasthalt
and the post office of Samudragada. The temple there was very much neglected,
but it was renovated in the Bengali year 1328 by Sri Paramananda Brahmacari, one
of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disciples, who reorganized the seva-puja
(worship in the temple) and placed the temple under the management of the Sri
Caitanya Matha of Sri Mayapur. In the temple as it now exists, the Deity of Sti
Gaura-Gadadhara is worshiped strictly according to the principles of the revealed
scriptures. Canpahati is two miles away from both Samudragada and the Navadvipa
station of the eastern railway.
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govinda, madhava, vadsudeva—tina bhai
yan-sabara kirtane nace caitanya-nitai
SYNONYMS
govinda—of the name Govinda; mddhava—of the name Madhava; vdsudeva—of
the name Vasudeva; ting bhai—three brothers; yaf-sabdra—all of whom; kirtane—in
the performance of safkirtana; ndce—dance; caitanya-nitai—Lord Caitanya and
Nityananda Prabhu.
TRANSLATION
The three brothers Govinda, Madhava and Vasudeva were the eighty-second,
eighty-third and eighty-fourth branches of the tree. Lord Caitanya and Nityananda
used to dance in their kirtana performances.
PURPORT
The three brothers Govinda, Madhava and Vasudeva Ghosh all belonged to a
kayastha family. Govinda established the Gopinatha temple in Agradvipa, where he
resided. Madhava Ghosh was expert in performing kirtana. No one within this
