Historical Geography of Ancient India c8.455

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c8.455

*Śāntipur*.—In the district of Nadia stands this place on the Ganges. It contains many Hindu temples. Here lived the great Vaiṣṇava reformer Advaitācārya, a contemporary and admirer of Śrīcaitanya, who used to practise asceticism. (*Introducing India*, Pt. I, p. 74).

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