The history of this place would take us back almost five hundred years. On his way to Puri, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was moving along the Ganges downstream from Panihati, till a sweet reading of the Bhagavata entered his ears. He looked for its origin, to find a brahmin in his tiny cottage reading the text, his cheeks flooding with ecstatic tears. Shri Chaitanya resided at the hut for three days, consulted philosophy with the brahmin, listened to his reading of Bhagavata, and rendered him the title of Shri Bhagavatacharya.
The place remained undiscovered untill some two hundred years back, a Vaishnavite Saint named Ramdas Babaji rediscovered it and set up an ashrama or hermitage there. At his death bed, he had commanded his disciples to chant the holy names. Since then, for twenty four hours round the clock, they have been chanting the sacred name of Hare Krishna .
Apart from this the ashrama also takes pride in its library, the largest of the Vaishnavite ones of the state. It boasts a collection of almost all the original manuscripts of Shri Chaitanya's first desciples, including Rup Goswami and Sanatan Goswami.
Author: Kumaraditya Sarkar
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