Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Madhya 9.281

kolāpure lakshmī dekhi' dekhena kshīra-bhagavatī

lāńga-ganeśa dekhi' dekhena cora-pārvatī

SYNONYMS

kolāpure — at Kolāpura; lakshmī — the goddess of fortune; dekhi' — seeing; dekhena — He visited; kshīra-bhagavatī — the temple of Kshīra-bhagavatī; lāńga-ganeśa — the deity Lāńga-ganeśa; dekhi' — seeing; dekhena — He sees; cora-pārvatī — the goddess Pārvatī, who is known as a thief.

TRANSLATION

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then visited the town of Kolāpura, where He saw the goddess of fortune in the temple of Kshīra-bhagavatī and saw Lāńga-ganeśa in another temple, known as Cora-pārvatī.

PURPORT

Kolāpura is a town in the Maharashtra province, formerly known as Bombay Pradesh. Formerly Kolāpura was a native state, and it is bordered on the north by the district of Sāńtārā, on the east and south by the district of Belagāma, and on the west by the district of Ratnagiri. In Kolāpura there is a river named Urnā. From the Bombay Gazette it is understood that there were about 250 temples there, out of which six are very famous. These are (1) Ambābāi, or Mahālakshmī Mandira, (2) Vithobā Mandira, (3) Temblāi Mandira, (4) Mahākālī Mandira, (5) Phirāńga-i, or Pratyańgirā Mandira, and (6) Yāllāmmā Mandira.

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