Radha Kunda
Glories
of Radha Kunda Appearance
of Radha Kunda in the Material World
Lord Chaitanya Rediscovers Radha and Syama Kundas
Raghunatha dasa Goswami Excavates Radha and Syama Kundas
Bathing at the Kundas Goswami
Temples at Radha Kunda
Ma Janava's Sitting Place Raghunatha
dasa Goswami's Samadhi
Krishna dasa Kaviraja's Bhajan Kutira
Panca Pandava Ghat
Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur's Bhajan Kutira
The Sangam
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Sitting Place
Giriraja Maharaja Mandir and Caran Cinha
Gosvami Temples at Radha Kunda
At Radha-kunda can be found
replicas of all the Gosvami temples of Vrndavana. In the year 1670, when the
soldiers of the Muslim zealot Emperor Aurangzeb, attacked Vrndavana, all the
important Deities of the Gosvami’s were secretly taken by bullock cart to
Radha-kunda for safe keeping. It is said that for some time the Deities were
actually submerged in Radha-kunda until the fear that they may be destroyed by
Aurangzeb’s soldiers had passed. It was decided that the Deities would be
taken to Rajasthan which was still under the control of Hindu Kings, who were
all staunch devotees of Krishna. The rulers of Jaipur, the state capital of
Rajasthan, were only too happy to accommodate the Deities of the Gosvami’s and
even today most of these Deities are still being worshipped in Jaipur.
Before the Deities were taken to
Rajasthan, replicas of them were carved
at Radha-kunda and later installed in temples situated around Radha-kunda, as
well as Vrndavana. These replicas of the original Deities are considered to be
non-different and are called the Pratibhu expansions,
which means the representative of the original Deity, having the same spiritual
potency. The Vrajavasis say that the Gosvami temples were built here so that the
local residents and devotees do not have to leave Radha-kunda to have darsana
of the Gosvami’s Deities.
List of Pratibhu Deities at Radha-kunda and who established the
original deity
