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 434 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [Chap. He left Navadwipa in 1509; from there he came to Katwa in Burdwan. He crossed the Damodara and stayed in the house of one Kaci Micra for a day; from there he went to Hazipur and thence His tour. to Midnapur where Kecava Samanta, a rich man, scolded him for taking the vow of a Sanyasin when he was so young ; from Midnapur he went to Narayangad and thence to Vatecvaram ; he crossed the Stvarna Rekha and reached Hariharpur and next moved to Nilgada; crossing the Vaitarani he visited the temples of Gopinath, Saksigopal and Nimraja on the banks of the Mahanadi; he next came to Atharanala whence he saw the flag of the Jagannath temple and was lifted into an ecstacy. He stayed at Puri for three months. In April, (7th Vaicak) 1510, he started again with his one follower Govinda for southern India. He came to the Godavari and met Rama Ray; thence he proceeded to Trimanda (modern Trimal- gada in Hydrabad) and converted Dhundi Rama Tirtha to his faith; from Trimanda he came to Sidhavate¢vara (modern Sidhavate¢varam ; between Cadappa and the river Punna) where a rich young man named Tirtharam came to tempt him ina vulgar manner, and himself became a convert to his faith. He then crossed a forest extending over twenty miles called Munna (on the river Munna in the Madras Presidency) ; from Munna he moved to Venkata (a city near Tripadi in the Madras Presidency); he next visited a forest known as the ‘Vagula woods’ and converted Pantha Bhil a notori- ous robber; there he passed three days and _ nights without food chanting the name of God. Thence he moved to Giri¢vara and_.to Tripadi Nagara (about