(translated by Swami B.V. Giri)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
The city of Etawah has long been famous as a prosperous place. The city itself is not huge or beautiful. The water in this place is not as good as it used to be. Some houses are available for rent near the railway station. Food and dairy are easily available. There is a well near the station where water is especially appreciated. In Etawah, ten Bengalis work there as doctors. As a result, Etawah can be considered a good city among other cities in the Western Province.<\/p>\n
Not only is Etawah famous for all of this. This city is situated on the banks of \u015ar\u012b Yamun\u0101. There are many places where the beauty of \u015ar\u012b Yamun\u0101 Dev\u012b are to be found. A very spacious stone barrier gh\u0101\u1e6da<\/em> adorns \u015ar\u012b Yamun\u0101 Dev\u012b. The very small stone houses on the gh\u0101\u1e6da<\/em> are beautiful and are like bhajana-ku\u1e6d\u012bras<\/em>. Turtles are floating in the water. A beautiful temple can be seen on a gh\u0101\u1e6da<\/em>. There are Deities of \u015ar\u012b Gaur\u012b-\u015aa\u1e45kara and \u015ar\u012b Baladevaj\u012b. \u015ar\u012bramt\u0101 Chaubey, a resident of Mathur\u0101, serves Baladevaj\u012b. The colour of Baladeva is black. We do not understand this anomaly concerning Baladeva\u2019s colour. We have seen many such places in Vraja-ma\u1e47\u1e0dala with this exception. If you search for the reason, no one can give a proper answer.<\/p>\n High landscapes are visible on both sides of the Yamun\u0101. It is a great pleasure to see all these hills while sitting on the banks of the Yamun\u0101 in broad daylight. The gh\u0101\u1e6da<\/em> was formerly a fortress, because it was on a high ground away from everyone. The ruins of that fort are still visible. We went up to the fort and saw a beautiful palace there. A little farther there is a tunnel and I came out that way. Some old people say that in ancient times a king named Sumeru Sena was the ruler of this fort.<\/p>\n Bateshwar is 6 kro\u015bas<\/em> (10.8 miles) from this place. There is a story that Vasudeva Mah\u0101\u015baya’s ancestor \u015a\u016brasena Mah\u0101r\u0101ja lived in Bateshwar. King Sumeru is also of that descent. If these stories are true, then it can be assumed that the Etawah fort belonged to the ancestors of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a and that is why \u015ar\u012b Yamun\u0101 is so beautiful here.<\/p>\n On the high ground, there is a temple of \u015aiva called \u1e6ciksi established by Va\u015bi\u1e63\u1e6dha-deva. It can be assumed that the word \u1e6ciksi is a corruption of the word Tripure\u015ba. The temple is beautifully built and the place is very lovely. Readers will know at some point what pleasure we had in visiting all these places.<\/p>\n When it comes to determining the origin of the word Etawah, it is rumored that the name is derived from i\u1e63\u1e6daka<\/em> (brick) due to the brick fortress. In our opinion, it is more likely that Etawah stems from \u012b\u1e63\u1e6da-sth\u0101na <\/em>(desirable place). There are bricks in all cities \u2013 so if Etawah is derived from the word \u2018brick\u2019, then all cities would be called Etawah. Judging by the beauty of the place and \u015ar\u012b Yamun\u0101, it is more likely to be called \u012b\u1e63\u1e6da-sth\u0101na<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div> It\u0101uy\u0101 Yamun\u0101-t\u012bra (Etawah on the Banks of the Yamun\u0101) was first published in Sajjana To\u1e63a\u1e47\u012b Vol.4. issue 3 in 1892. In this article Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kura describes a visit to the city of Etawah in modern day Uttar Pradesh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[539,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhaktivinodainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}(‘It\u0101uy\u0101 Yamun\u0101-t\u012bra – Etawah on the Banks of the Yamun\u0101’ by \u015ar\u012bla Bhaktivinoda \u1e6ch\u0101kura – was first published in Sajjana To\u1e63a\u1e47\u012b Vol.4. issue 3 in 1892., and translated into English by Swami B.V. Giri)<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"