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CC Madhya 9.312

Bengali

‘সপ্ততাল-বৃক্ষ’দেখে কানন-ভিতর ।
অতি বৃদ্ধ, অতি স্থূল, অতি উচ্চতর ॥ ৩১২ ॥

Text

‘saptatāla-vṛkṣa’ dekhe kānana-bhitara
ati vṛddha, ati sthūla, ati uccatara

Synonyms

sapta-tāla-vṛkṣa — seven palm trees; dekhe — sees; kānana bhitara — within the forest; ati vṛddha — very old; ati sthūla — very bulky; ati uccatara — very high.

Translation

Within the Daṇḍakāraṇya forest Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then visited a place called Saptatāla. The seven palm trees there were very old, very bulky and very high.

Purport

The name Saptatāla is mentioned in the Kiṣkindhyā section of the Rāmāyaṇa and is described in the eleventh and twelfth chapters of that section.