The Great Souls

“Mahaprabhu and his associates hear the Bhagavatam at Narendra Sarovar in Puri.” This famous sixteenth century painting, commissioned by Maharaja Prataparudra, is by Murari Das, a disciple of Vakreswar Pandit. In the front is Prataparudra Maharaja offering obeisances. Left to right are Raghunath Das Goswami, Govinda Das, Ramananda Ray, Gadadhar Pandit reading Srimad Bhagavatam, Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Adwaita Acharya, Srivas Pandit, Swarup Damodar Goswami and Haridas Thakur hanging his cloth to dry. (There are some differences of opinion about the identities of the three devotees on the left. Some say that it is not Ramananda Ray but is Brahmananda Bharati.) The painting is now in Kanji-ghata, near Berhampur, West Bengal.

Photos of various temples and parikramas in Bhubaneswar, Orissa
By: Madhavananda Das


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