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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.74
শিয়ালী ভৈরবী দেবী করি’ দরশন ।
কাবেরীর তীরে আইলা শচীর নন্দন ॥ ৭৪ ॥
śiyālī bhairavī devī kari’ daraśana
kāverīra tīre āilā śacīra nandana
After visiting the temple of Śiyālī-bhairavī [a form of the goddess Durgā], Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the son of mother Śacī, went to the bank of the river Kāverī.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the son of mother Śacī, visited the temple of Śiyālī-bhairavī, a form of the goddess Durgā.
The temple is in the Tanjore district, about forty-eight miles northeast of Tanjore City. A celebrated temple of Lord Śiva and a very large lake are there.
After this visit, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu traveled via Tiruchchirāpalli to the Kāverī. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam mentions the Kāverī as a very pious river.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
The purport of CC Madhya 9.74 quotesSB 11.5.38-40
The Kāverī is mentioned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.40) as a very pious river.
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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:
After leaving Vidyānagara, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited such places of pilgrimage as Gautamī-gaṅgā, Mallikārjuna, Ahovala-nṛsiṁha, Siddhavaṭa, Skanda-kṣetra, Trimaṭha, Vṛddhakāśī, Bauddha-sthāna, Tirupati, Tirumala, Pānā-nṛsiṁha, Śiva-kāñcī, Viṣṇu-kāñcī, Trikāla-hasti, Vṛddhakola, Śiyālī-bhairavī, the Kāverī River and Kumbhakarṇa-kapāla. Finally the Lord went to Śrī Raṅga-kṣetra, where He converted a brāhmaṇa named Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa, who, along with his family, took up devotional service to Kṛṣṇa.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.
What helps you remember the sacred significance of the places Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu visited?
Write down the two places in this journey: Śiyālī-bhairavī and the river Kāverī.
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