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Panihati is the name of a village located in the state of West Bengal, on the banks of River Ganges (10 miles north of Kolkata). It was one of the leading trade centers in earlier days when the river route was the main means of communication. A special rice variety called Peneti was imported at this place from Jessore in East Bengal. Probably the name Panihati might have been derived from this trade connection. Once upon a time, this place was the center of worship of the Buddhist Tantrics and the Kapalikas. But later, in the sixteenth century, when Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared to propagate the Sankirtana Movement, Panihati became a major center of the Gaudiya Vaishnavas. The residential quarters of Sri Raghava Pandita (one of the associates of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) still exist in Panihati. The Festival of Punishment – Panihati Utsava The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, appeared as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Sridhama Mayapura (a quarter in the city of Navadvipa) in B...

  🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆🔆 The reservoir of all trancendental mellows, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Krishna himself with the mood and lustre of Shrimati Radhika, and who mercifully distributed the Holy Names of the Lord for the deliverance of the fallen souls in this age of kali, can be attained only with the special mercy and permission of Shri Nityananda Prabhu, who is Adi Guru tattva and the only hope for living entities afflicted by the moods of material nature. The most wonderous story of Panihati chida dahi festival, which is celebrated on the trayodashi in the month of Jyeshtha comamorating this pastime of Nityananda Prabhu, took place in the village named Panihati, not far from Kolakata, when Nitai blessed Raghunath das goswami and ordered him to arrange for this festival, which was pleasing to the hearts of all the devotees. Once, when the bestower of love of God, Nityananda Prabhu, came to the village of Panihati, Shrila Raghunath da...