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times Ohaitanya spoke in Tamil (lie had ac-
quired that language in the course of his tour)
and at others in Sanskrit, From Gurjara
Chaitanya travelled to Poona. For seven days
he was mute and scarcely ate anything. On
the way to Poona lie ascended the Bijapur hills,
and thence proceeded northward towards the
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mountain scene which struck the
pilgrims with its solitary grandeur. In

Chaitanya it gave rise to great emotion and he
ran mad with joy, seeing the vision of Krsna
there, lie came to Poona where lie stopped
near an artificial lake called the Achhasara
under the shade of a large JBakula tree, Poona
is described as a great centre of Sanskrit learning
where the Gita and the Ehagavata were ex-
clusively studied by a considerable number oi'
scholars. Chaitanya here found a congenial
element and went into his Inspired ecstasies
. , again and again, as the scholars

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discussed Bhakti. There was
among them a certain materialistic "Brfihmana

who believing Chaitanya to be insane, told him

that Krsna himself was in the lake. As he
pointed to the water, the mad prophet of Nadia

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