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 4360 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. convert and followed him. He crossed the river Mula and reached Nasika; thence to Trimvak and Daman; he crossed the Tapti and reached Varoch (modern Broach); from Varoch he came _ to Varada where Naroji died; He visited Ahammada- bad and crossed the river Quvramati; he met two of his Bengali countrymen Govinda Charan and Ramananda, from Kulinagram; he went to Ghoga where a prostitute named Varamukhi, beauti- ful and wealthy, became a convert, cut off her hair and took the vow of a nun. He next visited Somnath in November 1510, reached Dwaraka from where he marched to Dohadanagar and thence to Amjhora, Kooksi, Mandura, Deoghar. Thence he proceeded to Chandipur, from where he went to Roypur, Vidyanagar and Ratnapur; from the last place he crossed the Mabanadi and _ rea- ched Cvarnagad, thence to Sambalpur, Daspal and Comes to Allalnath; he reached Puri on the 3rd of Magh, back to ; ; Puri in (January, 1511). Thushis travelling on foot from Feb. 1511- puri and back took one year eight months and twenty six days, and he travelled nearly 4000 miles within this time. During his travels he spent many days without any food. Whatever alms were brought to him by Govinda he would partake of only in very small quantities. Like a mad man his body lay covered with dust; he chanted the name of Krisna with tears in his eyes as he moved from place to place. Some of the scholars at Tungabhadra, Chandi- pur and at other places challenged him to a discussion on religious topics. He would not, however, enter His into any controversy with them. He said that he work in Southern Was an illiterate man. He was ready to write out- India letters of victory in favour of his assailants. But