CHAPTER 14
Performance of the Vrndavana Pastimes
Dressing himself as a Vaisnava, Maharaja Prataparudra entered a garden alone and
began reciting verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam. He then took the opportunity to
massage the lotus feet of the Lord. The Lord, in His ecstatic love for Krsna, im-
mediately embraced the King and thus bestowed mercy upon him. When there
was an offering of prasdda in the garden, Lord Caitanya also partook of it. After
this, when Lord Jagannatha’s Ratha car stopped moving, King Prataparudra called
for many elephants to pull it, but they were unsuccessful. Seeing this, Lord
Caitanya began to push the car from behind with His head, and the chariot began
moving. Then the devotees began pulling the chariot with ropes. Near the Gun-
dicd temple is a place known as Aitota. This place was fixed up for. Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu to rest in. When Lord Jagannatha was seated at Sundardcala, Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw it as Vrndavana. He performed sporting pastimes in
the water of the lake known as Indradyumna. For nine continuous days during
Ratha-yatra, the Lord remained at Jagannatha Puri, and on the fifth day He and
Svartipa Damodara observed the pastimes of Laksmi, the goddess of fortune. Dur-
ing that time, there was much talk about the pastimes of the gopis. When the
ratha was again being drawn and the chanting resumed, Ramananda Vasu of
Kulina-grama and Satyaraja Khan were requested to bring silk ropes every year for
the Ratha-yatra ceremony.
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gaurah pasyann atma-vrndaih
sri-laksmi-vijayotsavam
srutva gopi-rasollasarin
hrstah premnd nanarta sah

SYNONYMS
gaurah—Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; pasyan—by seeing; atma-vrndaih—
with His personal associates; sri-laksmi—of the goddess of fortune; vijaya--

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