Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 10.114

jagannātha tīrtha, vipra śrī-jānakīnātha

gopāla ācārya, āra vipra vāṇīnātha

SYNONYMS

jagannātha tīrtha — Jagannātha Tīrtha; vipra-śrī-jānakīnātha — the brāhmaṇa of the name Śrī Jānakīnātha; gopāla ācārya — Gopāla Ācārya; āra — and; vipra vāṇīnātha — the brāhmaṇa of the name Vāṇīnātha.

TRANSLATION

The seventy-eighth branch of the original tree was Jagannātha Tīrtha, the seventy-ninth was the brāhmaṇa Śrī Jānakīnātha, the eightieth was Gopāla Ācārya, and the eighty-first was the brāhmaṇa Vāṇīnātha.

PURPORT

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, "Jagannātha Tīrtha was one of the nine principal sannyāsīs who were Lord Caitanya's associates. Vāṇīnātha Vipra was a resident of Cāńpāhāṭi, a village in the district of Burdwan near the town of Navadvīpa, the police station of Pūrvasthalī and the post office of Samudragaḍa. The temple there was very much neglected, but it was renovated in the Bengali year 1328 [A.D. 1921] by Śrī Paramānanda Brahmacārī [one of Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura's disciples], who reorganized the sevā-pūjā (worship in the temple) and placed the temple under the management of the Śrī Caitanya Maṭha of Śrī Māyāpur. In the temple as it now exists, the Deity of Śrī Gaura-Gadādhara is worshiped strictly according to the principles of the revealed scriptures. Cāńpāhāṭi is two miles away from both Samudragarh and the Navadvīpa station of the eastern railway."

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