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women for their camp, and they cheat many women and keep them within their
community. In this way they increase their population. In Bengal also there is a
similar community. Actually, all over the world there are nomadic communities
whose business is simply to allure, cheat and steal innocent women.

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tamdla-kartika dekhi’ dila vetapani
raghunatha dekhi’ tahan vaficila rajani

SYNONYMS

tamala-kartika—the place named Tamila-kartika; dekhi’—seeing; dila—came;
vetapani—to Vetapani; raghu-natha dekhi’—seeing the temple of Lord Rama-
candra; tahan—there; vaficila rajani—passed the night.

TRANSLATION

After visiting Mallara-desa, Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to Tamala-kartika
and then to Vetaépani. There He saw the temple of Raghunatha, Lord Rama-
candra, and passed the night.

PURPORT

Tamila-kartika is forty-four miles south of Tinebheli and two miles south of the
Aramavalli mountain. It is located within the jurisdiction of Tobala. There is situ-
ated there a temple of Subrahmanya, or Lord Kartika, the son of Lord Siva.

Bhatapandi and is within the jurisdiction of the Tobala district. It is understood
that formerly there was a Deity of Lord Ramacandra there. Later the Deity was
replaced with a deity of Lord Siva known as RameSvara or Bhitanatha.

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gosdfira sange rahe krsnadasa brahmana
bhattathari-saha tahan haila darasana
