Text 208] The Lord’s Attempt to Go to Vendavana 263
mayera vacane punah geld navadvipa
varakond-ghata, nija vadira samipa
In the commentary of Premadasa it is said:
nadiyara majhakhane, sakala lokete
jane, ‘kuliya-pahadapura’ name sthana.
Si Narahari Cakravarti, or Ghanasyama dasa, has written in his Bhakti-ratnakara:
kuliya pahadapura dekha srinivasa
p&rve ‘koladvipa’-parvatakhya——e pracdra
In a book named Navadvipa-parikrama, also written by Ghanasyama dasa, it is
stated: kuliyé-pahadapura grama purve koladvipa-parvatakhyananda nama.
Therefore one can conclude that the present-day city of Navadvipa and the
places known as Bahirdvipa, Kolera Gafija, Kola-amada, Kolera Daha, Gadakhii,
etc. were known as Kuliya, but the so-called Kuliyara Pata is not the original
Kuliya.
TEXT 208
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AB-CUG COS Ge NS Tata Low I
madhava-dasa-grhe tathad sacira nandana
laksa-koti loka tathad pdaila darasana
SYNONYMS
madhava-dasa-grhe—at the house of Madhava dasa; tatha—there; Sacira nan-
dana—the son of mother Saci; laksa-koti loka—many hundreds and thousands of
people; tatha—there; paila darasana—got His audience.
TRANSLATION
When the Lord stayed at the house of Madhava dasa, many hundreds and
thousands of people came to see Him.
PURPORT
Madhava dasa is identified as follows. In the family of Srikara Cattopadhyaya,
Yudhisthira Cattopadhyaya took his birth. Formerly, he and his family members
lived in Bilvagrama and Patali. From there he went to Kuliya Pahadapura, formerly
known as Padapura. The eldest son of Yudhistira Cattopadhyaya is known as
Madhava dasa, the second son was called Haridasa, and the youngest son was
