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Suja, donated 1,185 bighds of land in the Bengali year 1060. The land being the
possession of Jagannatha, the village was named Jagannatha-pura. It is said that
Kamalakara Pippalai left home, and therefore his younger brother Nidhipati Pippalai
searched for him and in due course of time found him in the village of MaheSa.
Nidhipati Pippalai tried his best to bring his elder brother home, but he would not
return. Under these circumstances, Nidhipati Pippalai, with all his family members,
came to MaheSa to reside. The members of this family still reside in the vicinity of
the Mahesa village. Their family name is Adhikari, and they are a brahmana family.

The history of the Jagannatha Temple in MahesSa is as follows. One devotee of the
name Dhruvananda went to see Lord Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra at
Jagannatha Puri, wanting to offer foodstuffs to Jagannathaji that he had cooked
with his own hands. This being his desire, one night Jagannathaji appeared to him
in a dream and asked him to go to Mahesa on the bank of the Ganges and there
start worship of Him in a temple. Thus Dhruvananda went to Mahesa, where he
saw the three Deities—Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra—floating in the Ganges.
He picked up all those Deities and installed Them in a small cottage, and with great
satisfaction he executed the worship of Lord Jagannatha. When he became old, he
was very much anxious to hand over the worship to the charge of someone reliable,
and in a dream he got permission from Jagannatha Prabhu to hand it over to a per-
son whom he would meet the next morning. The next morning he met Kamalakara
Pippalai, who was formerly an inhabitant of the village Khalijuli in the Sundaravana
Forest area of Bengal and was a pure Vaisnava, a great devotee of Lord Jagannatha;
thus he immediately gave him charge of the worship. In this way, Kamalakara
Pippalai became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his family mem-
bers have been designated as Adhikari, which means ‘‘one who is empowered to
worship the Lord.” These Adhikaris belong to a respectable brdhmana family.
Five types of upper-class brahmanas are recognized by the surname Pippalai.

TEXT 25
TEA AACN, StH STS SST |
forsstacen gp festa, ceicaa ferat a ecu

suryadasa sarakhela, tanra bhai krsnadasa
nityGnande drdha visvasa, premera nivasa
SYNONYMS

suryaddsa sarakhela—of the name Siryadasa Sarakhela; tafra bhai—his brother;
krsnadasa—of the name Krsnadasa; nitydnande—unto Lord Nityananda; drdha visvasa
--firm faith; premera nivdsa—the reservoir of all love of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Suryadasa Sarakhela and his younger brother Krsnadasa Sarakhela both possessed
firm faith in Nityananda Prabhu. They were a reservoir of love of Godhead.
