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 _ V.] BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. = 435 7 forty miles to the North-west of Madras) he next visited the temple of Panna Narasimha, and arrived at Visnu Kanchi (modern Kanjivaram). From there he visited two shrines Kalatirtha and Sandhi Tirtha; then he passed onto Chaipalli (modern Trichina Palli); he next went to Nagar (about 145 miles to the east of Trichina Palli and situated on the sea-coast). From Nagar he went to Tanjore (about 14 miles to the south of Nagar) ; he crossed the mount Chandhalu there and passed on to Padmakota (about 25 miles to the south of Tanjore) and thence to Tripatra (about twenty-five miles to the south); there he crossed a forest extending over 300 miles, in 15 days; he next came to Ranga Dhama (Sri Ramgam) and visited the temple of Nrisimha; from there he went to Ramanath and thence to Ramegvar ; henext travelledthrough a forest called Madhikavana and crossing the river Tamraparni reached Kanya Kumari on the sea-coast ; from there he proceeded to Trivankoo (moden Trivancore). ‘This place is des- cribed as being surrounded by hills. The King Rudrapati who reigned there at the time received Chaitanya Deva cordially ; from Trivancore he pro- ceeded to Poyasni (modern Pangani) and thence to Matsatirtha and Kachar, crossed the rivers Bhadra and Naga-Panchapadi and came to Chitole (modern Chital Durgh, (on the northern boundary of Mysore) ; from Chital to Chandipur and thence to Gurjari (near Hydrabad) and thence to Pairna (modern Poona) ; from Parna he moved to Pattana and thence to Jajuri. Here he preached God’s love to the unfortunate women—the Muraries. From Jajuri he went to the woods called Chorgnandivan where he met a famous bandit named Naroji who became 4