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| Madhya-līlā | Chapter 9: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's Travels to the Holy Places |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 9.221
gajendra-mokshana-tīrthe dekhi vishnu-mūrti
pānāgadi-tīrthe āsi' dekhila sītāpati
SYNONYMS
gajendra-mokshana-tīrthe — at the holy place named Gajendra-mokshana; dekhi — seeing; vishnu-mūrti — the Deity of Lord Vishnu; pānāgadi-tīrthe — to the holy place Pānāgadi; āsi' — coming; dekhila — saw; sītā-pati — Lord Śrī Rāmacandra and Sītādevī.
TRANSLATION
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then visited the holy place named Gajendra-mokshana, where He went to a temple of Lord Vishnu. He then came to Pānāgadi, a holy place where He saw the Deities of Lord Rāmacandra and Sītā.
PURPORT
The Gajendra-mokshana temple is sometimes mistaken for a temple of Lord Śiva. It is about two miles south of the city of Kaivera (Nagercoil). Actually the Deity is not of Lord Śiva but of Vishnu.
Pānāgadi (Pannakudi) is about thirty miles south of Tirunelveli. Formerly the temple there contained the Deity of Śrī Rāmacandra, but later the devotees of Lord Śiva replaced Lord Rāmacandra with a deity of Lord Śiva named Rāmeśvara or Rāma-lińga Śiva.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness