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kamalakara pippalai--alaukika rita
alaukika prema tanra bhuvane vidita
SYNONYMS
kamalakara pippalai—of the name Kamalakara Pippalai; alaukika—uncommon; rita—behavior or pastime; alaukika—uncommon; prema—love of Godhead; tanra—his; bhuvane—in the world; vidita—celebrated.
Kamalakara Pippalai is said to have been the third gopala.
His behavior and love of Godhead were uncommon, and thus he is celebrated all over the world.
PURPORT
In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 128, Kamalakara Pippalai is described as the third gopala.
His former name was Mahabala.
The Jagannatha Deity at Mahesa in Sri Ramapura was installed by Kamalakara Pippalai.
This village of Mahesa is situated about two and a half miles from the Sri Ramapura railway station.
The genealogy of the family of Kamalakara Pippalai is given as follows.
Kamalakara Pippalai had a son named Caturbhuja, who had two sons named Narayana and Jagannatha.
Narayana had one son named Jagadananda, and his son’s name was Rajivalocana.
During the time of Rajivalocana, there was a scarcity of finances for the worship of the Jagannatha Deity, and it is said that the Nawab of Dacca, whose name was Shah Suja, donated 1,185 bighas of land in the Bengali year 1060 (A.D 1653).
The land being the possession of Jagannatha, the village was named Jagannatha-pura.
It is said that when Kamalakara Pippalai left home his younger brother Nidhipati Pippalai searched for him and in due course of time found him in the village of Mahesa.
Nidhipati Pippalai tried his best to bring his elder brother home, but he would not return.
Under these circumstances, Nidhipati Pippalai, with all his family members, came to Mahesa to reside.
The members of this family still reside in the vicinity of the Mahesa village.
Their family name is Adhikari, and they are a brahmana family.
The history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesa is as follows.
One devotee of the name Dhruvananda went to see Lord Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra at Jagannatha Puri, wanting to offer food to Jagannathaji that he had cooked with his own hands.
This being his desire, one night Jagannathaji appeared to him in a dream and asked him to go to Mahesa on the bank of the Ganges and there start worship of Him in a temple.
Thus Dhruvananda went to Mahesa, where he saw the three deities-Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra-floating in the Ganges.
He picked up all those deities and installed them in a small cottage, and with great satisfaction he executed the worship of Lord Jagannatha.
When he became old, he was very anxious to hand over the worship to the charge of someone reliable, and in a dream he got permission from Jagannatha Prabhu to hand it over to a person whom he would meet the next morning.
The next morning he met Kamalakara Pippalai, who was formerly an inhabitant of the village Khalijuli in the Sundaravana Forest area of Bengal and was a pure Vaisnava, a great devotee of Lord Jagannatha; thus he immediately gave him charge of the worship.
In this way, Kamalakara Pippalai became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his family members have been designated as Adhikari, which means “one who is empowered to worship the Lord.” These Adhikaris belong to a respectable brahmana family.
Five types of upper-class brahmanas are recognized by the surname Pippalai.