370 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta
Paramesvari Thakura took many disciples from brahmana families, but as these
descendants gradually took to the profession of physicians, persons from brahmana
families ceased becoming their disciples. The family titles of Paramesvari's descen-
dants are Adhikari and Gupta. Unfortunately his family members do not worship the
Deity directly; they have engaged paid brahmanas to worship the Deity. In the
temple, Baladeva and Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha are together on the throne. It is sup-
posed that the Deity of Baladeva was installed later because according to transcen-
dental mellow, Baladeva, Krsna and Radha cannot stay on the same throne. On the
full moon day of vaisakha (April-May), the disappearance festival of Paramesvari
Thakura is observed in this temple.
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FWAANTS AH, Cla 441 GA Oe Ui
jagadisa pandita haya jagat-pavana
krsna-premamrta varse, yena varsd ghana
SYNONYMS
jagadisa pandita—of the name Jagadisa Pandita; haya—becomes; jagat-pavana—the
deliverer of the world; Arsna-prema-amrta varse—he always pours torrents of devo-
tional service; yena—like; vars@—rainfall; ghana—heavy.
TRANSLATION
Jagadisa Pandita, the fifteenth branch of Lord Nityananda’s followers, was the
deliverer of the entire world. Devotional love of Krsna showered from him like
torrents of rain.
PURPORT
Descriptions of Jagadisa Pandita are available from Caitanya-bhagavata, Adi-lila,
Chapter Four, and Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Chapter Fourteen. He belonged to
the village of Yasada-grama in the district of Nadia near the Cakadaha railway station.
His father, the son of Bhatta Narayana, was named Kamalaksa. Both his father and
mother were great devotees of Lord Visnu, and after their death, J agadisa, with his
wife Duhkhini and brother Mahesa, left his birthplace and came to Sri Mayapur to
live in the company of Jagannatha Misra and other Vaisnavas. Lord Caitanya asked
Jagadisa to go to Jagannatha Puri to preach the hari-nama-sankirtana movement.
After returning from Jagannatha Puri, on the order of Lord Jagannatha he established
Deities of Jagannatha in the village of Yasada-grama. It is said that when Jagadisa
Pandita brought the Deity of Jagannatha to Yasada-grama, he tied the heavy Deity
to a stick and thus brought Him to the village. The priests of the temple still show
the stick used by Jagadisa Pandita to carry the Jagannatha Deity.
