Jagannath, she had a dream in which she felt that the image was really the emblem of Siva seated on the altar made of a lakh of Salagrams (an emblem of Vishnu).
2 The next time she went on pilgrimage was in 1894, when she visited Banaras and Brindavan for the second times, accompanied by her mother and brothers, besides Swami Yogananada, Golap-Ma and Yogin-Ma. Towards the end of November 1904, she went again to Puri along with her mother, her mad sister-in-law Surabala, her niece Radhu, and her brother Kali and his family, besides Swami Premananda and several devotees of the Master. During her stay at Puri she got a very painful boil on the leg. It was so painful that she would not allow anyone even to touch it. Coming to know of it, Swami Premananda made an arrangement with a doctor, who was a devotee of hers, to come with a knife and open the boil. The doctor approached her apparently to make prostration, but while doing so he quickly opened the boil. Although at the moment the intensity of pain caused annoyance in her mind towards the persons involved in the plot, she was very grateful to them when she felt relief after the operation. Subsequently her health improved, and she could therefore visit all the holy spots at Puri, circumambulate the temples and bathe in the sea twice. She spent two months in joy and peace in the holy city, reputed for its salubrious climate.
On one occasion she also paid a visit to Vishnupur,
3 situated about twenty-eight miles away from Kamarpukur. Vishnupur was once the capital of a flourishing kingdom, and the pious Vaishnava kings of
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2 It is to be noted that the Holy Mother's intuition is in many respects in agreement with historical finding. At present the image is considered to be that of Vishnu or Krishna. Many historians are of the opinion that this was originally a Buddhist temple, and when the temple fell into the hands of the followers of Sankaracharya, the image was converted into the emblem of Siva, and still later, when the Vaishnavas got control, they converted it into a Vishnu image.
3 This is a station on the Eastern Railway and pilgrims going to Jayrambati and Kamarpukur used to get down here, and cover the remaining distance by bus.