{"id":7791,"date":"2024-10-30T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2025-10-29T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:59:06","slug":"sri-dhananjaya-pandita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/sri-dhananjaya-pandita\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Dhananjaya Pandita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pandita Dhananjaya was a resident of the village in Katwa named Sitala. He was one of the twelve gopalas. His former name, according to the Gaura-ga\u1e47odde\u015ba-d\u012bpik\u0101 (127), was Vasudama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sitala-grama is situated near the Mangalakota police station and Kaicara post office in the district of Burdwan.<\/p>\n\n\n

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On the narrow railway from Burdwan to Katwa is a railway station about nine miles from Katwa known as Kaicara. One has to go about a mile northeast of this station to reach Sitala. The temple was a thatched house with walls made of dirt. Some time ago, the zamindars of Bajaravana Kabasi, the Mulliks, constructed a big house for the purpose of a temple, but for the last sixty-five years, the temple has been broken down and abandoned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundation of the old temple is still visible. There is a tulasi pillar near the temple, and every year during the month of Kartika (October-November), the disappearance day of Dhananjaya is observed. It is said that for some time Pandita Dhananjaya was in a sankirtana party under the direction of Sri Chaitanya<\/a> Mahaprabhu, and then he went to Vrindavana. Before going to Vrindavana, he lived for some time in a village named Sancadapancada, which is six miles south of the Memari railway station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes this village is also known as \u2018the place of Dhananjaya\u2019 (Dhananjayera Pata). After some time, he left the responsibility for worship with a disciple and went back to Vrindavana. After returning from Vrindavana to Sitala-grama, he established a Deity of Gaurasundara in the temple. The descendants of Pandita Dhananjaya still live in Sitala-grama and look after the temple worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, Pandita Dhananjaya was a resident of the village in Katwa named Sitala. He was one of the twelve gopalas. His former name, according to the Gaura-ga\u1e47odde\u015ba-d\u012bpik\u0101 (127), was Vasudama. Sitala-grama is situated near the Mangalakota police station and Kaicara post office in the district of Burdwan. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-our-acharyas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}