| Temples & Legends of Bengal |
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| Temples & Legends Of India |
THE TEMPLES IN BIRBHUM |
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pondering on the subject went away to have his bath. In the mean while the Lord Krishna
assumed theperson of the poet Jayadeva and came to his house and had a meal served out by
Padmavati and then he wrote out and completed the verse. Padmavati little knowing of
the trick that had been played by the Lord himself sat down to eat the food left on the
plate. At this time the poet Jayadeva returned and was astonished to find Padmavati
partaking the food because as a modest Hindu wife she never dined before her husband. The wife was also equally astonished to find her husband returning a second time after a bath and asked him what he meant by this.Jayadeva was curious and the wife narrated what had happened. Both went to look at the poem which Jayadeva hadbeen writing and found that the verse which he had wanted to put down but could not bring himself up to it had been written in its proper place.Both the devotees Jayadeva and Padmavati were convinced that the Lord himself had come and had written the verse in order to relieve Jayadeva of his difficulty. This is the famous verse: |
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