Çré v raja-maëòala parikramä
Gau-ghäöa
(20) Sarasvaté-patana-tértha (Kåñëa-gaìgä-ghäöa) Sarasvaté-patana-tértha lies near Gau-ghäöa, or Soma-tértha. The river Sarasvaté used to meet the Yamunä here. Another name of the river Sarasvaté is Çré Kåñëa-gaìgä. This tértha is therefore also known as Kåñëa-gaìgä-ghäöa. This ghäöa is related to Çré Kåñëa-dvaipäyana Vedavyäsa. He took birth from Matsyagandhä Satyavaté and Maharñi Päräçara on an island in the Yamunä near here. Some say that Çré Vyäsadeva composed Çrémad-Bhägavatam here, and this is correct. Çrémad-Bhägavatam is the treatise for the topmost transcendentalist, and is known as the Paramahaàsasaàhitä. Vedavyäsa took instruction from Devarñi Närada. Through his practice of bhakti-yoga, he saw the Absolute Truth, Çré Kåñëa, and all His pastimes in Vraja, Mathurä and Dvärakä. How else could he have had darçana of Çré Kåñëa and describe the sweetest of His sweetest pastimes without having performed worship in Vraja-dhäma, the sweetest of all sacred abodes? This is 56