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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.316
প্রভু আসি’ কৈল পম্পা-সরোবরে স্নান ।
পঞ্চবটী আসি, তাহাঁ করিল বিশ্রাম ॥ ৩১৬ ॥
prabhu āsi’ kaila pampā-sarovare snāna
pañcavaṭī āsi, tāhāṅ karila viśrāma
Eventually Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu arrived at a lake known as Pampā, where He took His bath. He then went to a place called Pañcavaṭī, where He rested.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu bathed at the lake known as Pampā. He then went to Pañcavaṭī, where He rested.
Some say that Pambā was the old name of the Tuṅgabhadrā River. Others say that Vijaya-nagara was known as Pampātīrtha.
Still others identify Pampā-sarovara as the lake near Anāguṇḍi, in the direction of Hyderabad. The purport acknowledges many different opinions about its location.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Wonder and inclusion. Meetings across sacred places display the broad reach of devotional mercy.
The mood of Madhya 9 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
From there He visited a place known as Pampā-sarovara and visited Pañcavaṭī, Nāsika, Brahmagiri and also the source of the Godāvarī River, Kuśāvarta. Thus the Lord visited almost all the holy places in South India.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How can you remember the Lord’s visit while acknowledging the different opinions about Pampā’s location?
Make two brief notes: what the translation says happened at Pampā, and what the purport says remains differently identified.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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