Verse 3.5.709

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.709:

খানচৌডা বডগাছি আর দোগাছিযা গঙ্গার ওপার কভু যাযেন কুলিযা ॥ ৭০৯ ॥

खानचौडा बडगाछि आर दोगाछिया गङ्गार ओपार कभु यायेन कुलिया ॥ ७०९ ॥

khānacauḍā baḍagāchi āra dogāchiyā gaṅgāra opāra kabhu yāyena kuliyā || 709 ||

khanacauda badagachi ara dogachiya gangara opara kabhu yayena kuliya (709)

English translation:

(709) He visited Khānacauḍā, Baḍagāchi, and Dogāchiyā, and sometimes He went to Kuliyā, which is situated on the other side of the Ganges.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Another reading for Khānacauḍā is Khālāchādā. Some people call it (Khānacauḍā) Khānājoḍā, Khānācautā, or Khānācauḍā. Khālāchādā refers to an old riverbed or a dried-up bed or ditch where the Ganges previously

flowed. The village of Baḍagāchi exists even today and is situated near the villages of Kālaśira-khāla and Rukunapura. The house of Śrī Nityānanda’s father-in-law is in this village.

The village of Dogāchiyā is situated near Kṛṣṇanagara. One of Nityānanda’s servants used to live there.

Śrī Navadvīpa refers to Śrī Māyāpur, which is situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges. Koladvīpa, or Kuliyā, is situated on the western bank of the Ganges. According to the opinion of all learned persons, the present city of Navadvīpa was know as Kuliyā during the time of Mahāprabhu. Śrī Māyāpur-Navadvīpa is situated on the eastern bank, across from the village Kuliyā. According to the statement of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata: sabe mātra gaṅgā nadīyāya kuliyāya—“Only the Ganges lay between Nadia and Kuliyā,” Śrī Navadvīpa-Māyāpur is always situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges, and Kuliyā was and is always situated on the western bank of the Ganges. Even now, places like Kuliyāra-gañja, Āmāda-kola, Tegharira-kola, and Kuliyāra-daha indicate the location of ancient Kuliyā.