Dhananjaya Pandit – Biography

Dhananjaya Pandit

"Dhananjaya Pandit was a very rare soul. Nityananda Prabhu was always present in his heart." (C.B. Antya 5.733) (In the image: Sri Nityananda Prabhu).

   "Dhananjaya Pandit was a very rare soul. Nityananda Prabhu was always present in his heart." [C.B. Antya 5.733] 

   His Shripat is at Sitalgram, Mangal Kota Khana, Barddhaman district. There is a railway station at Kaichor on the metre gauge line from Katwa to Barddhaman. If one gets down at Kaichor, then it is about a twenty minute walk to the village of Sitalgram. 

   Dhananjaya Pandita also stayed at Sanchra Panchra for some time. According to the opinion of some he was born in the village of Jargram, within the district of Chattagram. He was present during Mahaprabhu's sankirtana pastimes in Navadwipa. After returning from Vrindavana, he also worshipped the Deities at Jalandigram.

   At present the Deities of Sri Gopinatha, Sri Sri Nitai-Gaura and Sri Damodara Salagram-sila are being worshipped there. He has no descendants, but he had a brother by the name Sri Sanjaya, whose son was Sri Rama Kanai Thakura. His Sripat is located at Mulukgrama (near Bolpur). Sanjaya was perhaps the disciple of Dhananjaya Pandita. The present sevakas at Sitalgram are the descendants of Dhananjaya Pandit's disciple.

   His disappearance is on the eighth day of the bright fortnight, in the month of Kartik.