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Chapter 23: Prameya: Nāma-tattva

Bilva-puṣkariṇī is a charming village where Bhagavatī. Bhāgīrathī flows in both the northern and western directions. In one corner of the village, there is a beautiful lake surrounded by bael trees. On the shore of the lake is the Bilva-pakṣa

Mahādeva Temple, and Bhavatāraṇa is splendidly situated a

little distant from this temple. The village of Simuliyā is between

Bilva-puṣkariṇī and Brāhmaṇa-puṣkariṇī, and all three villages are within the town of Navadvīpa. A wide road leads through

the center of Bilva-puṣkariṇī, and Vrajanātha’s house is on this

road towards the north.

Vijaya Kumāra had bidden his sister farewell and walked for

some distance, but on the way he began to think that it would be

fitting to learn śrī-nāma-tattva from Bābājī before he went home. Thinking like this, he returned to Bilva-puṣkariṇī, and said to his

sister, “I will stay here for one or two more days, and then I will

return home.”

Vrajanātha became very happy to see his maternal uncle Vijaya Kumāra return. They sat together in the Caṇḍī - maṇḍapa

and began discussing the instructions of Daśa-mūla. By now,

Sūryadeva was preparing to set on the western horizon, and the birds were quickly flying towards their nests. Just at that time,