Verse 2.28.10

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.28.10:

`ইন্দ্রাণী’ নিকটে কাটোঞা-নামে গ্রাম তথা আছে কেশব ভারতীশুদ্ধ নাম ॥ ১০ ॥

`इन्द्राणी’ निकटे काटोञा-नामे ग्राम तथा आछे केशव भारतीशुद्ध नाम ॥ १० ॥

`indrāṇī’ nikaṭe kāṭoñā-nāme grāma tathā āche keśava bhāratīśuddha nāma || 10 ||

`indrani’ nikate katona-name grama tatha ache kesava bharatisuddha nama (10)

English translation:

(10) “There is a village named Katwa near Indrāṇī. At that place lives the pure soul, Keśava Bhāratī.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Indrāṇī was a famous place at that time. The subdivision of Indrāṇī was situated near the present day Katwa.

Katwa (Kāṭoyā) is a subdivision situated in the district of Burdwan. There is a railway station of this name on the Bandel-Barharwa line. This place is still situated on the bank of the Ganges.

Keśava Bhāratī was a sannyāsī. He performed the duties of a sannyāsa guru. There are one hundred eight sannyāsa names current in the ancient sampradāya of Viṣṇusvāmī. Later on, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, who propounded the philosophy of impersonalism, took ten of those sannyāsa names and introduced them in his sampradāya. Bhāratī is one of those names. It is said that in Śrṅgerī, South India, the three classes among the ten sannyāsīs are known as Sarasvatī, Bhāratī, and Purī. Sarasvatī is considered first class, Bhāratī second class, and Purī third class. Bhāratī was the name of his class, and Keśava was his name. Even today many people identify themselves as descendants of Keśava Bhāratī. These topics have been elaborately described in the book named Vaiṣṇava- mañjuṣā-samāhṛti.