Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 12.87

amogha paṇḍita, hasti-gopāla, caitanya-vallabha

yadu gāńguli āra mańgala vaiṣṇava

SYNONYMS

amogha paṇḍita — Amogha Paṇḍita; hasti-gopāla — Hastigopāla; caitanya-vallabha — Caitanya-vallabha; yadu gāńguli — Yadu Gāńguli; āra — and; mańgala vaiṣṇava — Mańgala Vaiṣṇava.

TRANSLATION

The twenty-eighth branch was Amogha Paṇḍita; the twenty-ninth, Hastigopāla; the thirtieth, Caitanya-vallabha; the thirty-first, Yadu Gāńguli; and the thirty-second, Mańgala Vaiṣṇava.

PURPORT

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, "Śrī Mańgala Vaiṣṇava was a resident of the village Ṭiṭakaṇā in the district of Murśidābād. His forefathers were śāktas who worshiped the goddess Kirīṭeśvarī. It is said that Mańgala Vaiṣṇava, formerly a staunch brahmacārī, left home and later married the daughter of his disciple Prāṇanātha Adhikārī in the village of Mayanāḍāla. The descendants of this family are known as the Ṭhākuras of Kāńdaḍā, which is a village in the district of Burdwan near Katwa. Scattered descendants of Mańgala Vaiṣṇava, thirty-six families altogether, still live there. Among the celebrated disciples of Mańgala Ṭhākura are Prāṇanātha Adhikārī, Puruṣottama Cakravartī of the village of Kāńdaḍā, and Nṛsiḿha-prasāda Mitra, whose family members are well-known mṛdańga players. Sudhākṛṣṇa Mitra and Nikuñjavihārī Mitra are both especially famous mṛdańga players. In the family of Puruṣottama Cakravartī there are famous persons like Kuñjavihārī Cakravartī and Rādhāvallabha Cakravartī, who now live in the district of Birbhum. They professionally recite songs from Caitanya-mańgala. It is said that when Mańgala Ṭhākura was constructing a road from Bengal to Jagannātha Purī, he found a Deity of Rādhāvallabha while digging a lake. At that time he was living in the locality of Kāńdaḍā, in the village named Rāṇīpura. The śālagrāma-śilā personally worshiped by Mańgala Ṭhākura still exists in the village of Kāńdaḍā. A temple has been constructed there for the worship of Vṛndāvana-candra. Mańgala Ṭhākura had three sons — Rādhikāprasāda, Gopīramaṇa and Śyāmakiśora. The descendants of these three sons are still living."

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