CC Madhya 3.216
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 216
- gaṅgā-tīre-tīre prabhu cāri-jana-sāthe
- nīlādri calilā prabhu chatrabhoga-pathe
SYNONYMS
gaṅgā-tīre-tīre — on the banks of the Ganges; prabhu — the Lord; cāri-jana-sāthe — with the other four persons; nīlādri — to Jagannātha Purī; calilā — proceeded; prabhu — the Lord; chatrabhoga-pathe — on the path of Chatrabhoga.
TRANSLATION
The Lord, with the other four persons, went along the banks of the Ganges through the path of Chatrabhoga toward Nīlādri, Jagannātha Purī.
PURPORT
In the southern section of the Eastern Railway, in the district of twenty-four pargaṇās, is a station named Magrāhāṭa. If one goes to the southeastern side of that station for some fourteen miles, there is a place called Jayanagara. About six miles south of this Jayanagara station is a village named Chatrabhoga. Sometimes this village is called Khāḍi. In this village is a Deity of Lord Śiva known as Vaijurkānātha. A festival takes place there every year during the month of Caitra (March-April). The festival is known as Nandā-melā. At the present moment the Ganges does not flow there. On the same railway line is another station, known as Bāruipura, and near this station is another place, called Āṭisārā. Formerly this village was also situated on the banks of the Ganges. One can go from this village to Pānihāṭi and from there to Varāha-nagara, north of Calcutta. In those days the Ganges flowed to the south of Calcutta through Kālī-ghāṭa, which is still known as Adi-gaṅgā. From Bāruipura, the Ganges branched out and flowed through Diamond Harbor near the Mathurāpura police station. It is to be noted that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed through all these places on His way to Jagannātha Purī.