Kamalakara Pippalāi ( Kamalākara Pippalāi IAST ) - a Hare Krishna saint who lived in Bengal in the late XV - first half of the XVI century . Belongs to a group of twelve Hare Krishnas saints dvadasa-gopal - outstanding preachers who spread Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout Bengal. [1] The Caitanya Charitamrita states that "his deeds and love for God, glorifying him, were extraordinary." [2] It is said that Kamalakara Pippalai established the deity Jagannatha in the runaway village of Mahesha, [3] and that Nityananda , appreciating the enthusiasm of his sermon, made him the leader of the sankirtana in the preaching center of Saptagram. [2]
| Kamalakara Pippalai | |
|---|---|
| Kamalākara Pippalāi | |
| Birth | beginning of the 16th century Bengal |
| Death | end of the 16th century Bengal |
| Is revered | in Gaudiya Vaishnavism |
| In the face | |
The son of Kamalakara Pippalaya was called Chaturbhuja; Chaturbhuji had two sons: Narayana and Jagannatha; Narayana had a son named Jagadananda; the son of Jagadananda was called Rajivalocana. At the time of Rajivalocana, there was a shortage of funds to worship the deity of Jagannatha, so in 1653 the nabob of Dhaka by the name of Shah Suja donated 140 hectares of land to the temple. Thus, the whole land passed into the ownership of Jagannatha, and the village that was on it was renamed Jagannatha-pura (Jagannatha village).
When Kamalakara Pippalai left home, his younger brother Nidhipati Pippalai began to search for him and after some time he found in the village of Mahesha. Nidhipati did his best to bring his older brother home, but he flatly refused. Therefore, Nidhipati, along with his whole family, moved to Mahesha. The descendants of this family still live in the vicinity of the village. They are brahmanas and are named Adhikari.
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, in his commentary on Caitanya-caritamrta, describes the history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesh as follows. Once a devotee by the name of Dhruvananda went to Puri , wanting to receive the darshan of Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra and to present Jagannatha with his own hand-made treat. However, at night Jagannatha appeared to Dhruvananda in a dream and ordered him to go to the bank of the Ganges to Mahesha, build a temple there and worship him in it. Upon arriving in Maheshu, Dhruvananda saw three deities floating on the Ganges: Jagannath, Balarama, and Subhadra. Catching the deities from the river, Dhruvananda installed them in a small hut and began to worship them. When Dhruvananda grew old, he began to worry about where to find a reliable person and give him worship. Then Jagannatha again appeared to him in a dream and authorized to entrust the worship of the first person he met the next morning. The next morning, Dhruvananda met Kamalakara Pippalaya, who had previously lived in the village of Khalijuli in the Sundarbana forest in Bengal and was known as a pure Vaishnava and great devotee of Jagannatha. Dhruvananda immediately handed him the deity. So Kamalakara Pippalai began to worship Jagannath. Since then, members of his family began to bear the title Adhikari, which means "worthy to worship the Lord." Adhikari belong to the venerable Brahmin family.
In “ Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika ” (128) Kamalakara Pippalai was named the third among the twelve shepherds (dvadasa-gopal) [2] . It also says that earlier, in the pastimes of Krsna , he was a cowherd boy Mahabala. [2]
Notes
- ↑ Edward C. Dimock . The place of the hidden moon: erotic mysticism in the Vaiṣṇava-sahajiyā cult of Bengal . - Motilal Banarsidass , 1991 .-- P. 94-95. - 299 p. - ISBN 8120809963 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Mahanidhi Swami . The Gaudiya Vaisnava samadhis in Vrndavana . - 1993. - P. 100. - 193 p.
- ↑ Mahesha is located approximately four kilometers from the Sri Ramapura railway station.