KEY EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

March 9, 2001

(1486-1533 A.D. - 47 years)

- February 18, 1486 - His birth in Sri Mayapura

-August, 1486 (age 6 months) ceremony of giving first grains, and ceremony of

offering coins and the Srimad-Bhagavatam (in which he chose the Bhagavatam)

- 1494 (age 8) - He begins His schooling under Ganga Dasa Pandita

- 1496 (age 10) - He becomes a scholar; His brother Visva-rupa takes sannyasa

- 1500 (age 14) - He marries Srimati Laksmi-Priya

- 1502 (age 16) - He starts His own school, teaching Sanskrit grammer

- 1503 (age 17) - He travels to Gaya and accepts initiation from Isvara Puri

- 1509 (age 23) - He propagates the sankirtana movement; He delivers Chand Kazi

- 1510 (age 24) - He formally accepts the renounced order of sannyasa

- February 1510 (age 25) - He travels to Puri, Orissa; He visits the Deity

Saksi-Gopala

- March 1510 - He meets with Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and converts him to

vaisnavism

- April 1510 - He continues toward South India; He meets Ramananda Raya

- August-November 1510 - He spends Catur-masya in Ranga-ksetra

- June 1511 (age 26) - He return to Jagannatha Puri

- October 1514 (age 28) - He travels to Bengal and mets Rupa and Sanatana

Gosvamis

- June 1515 (age 29) - Returns to Puri via Santi-pura; He starts for Sri

vrndavana

- June 1516 (age 30) - He returns to Puri, remaining there for His final 17

years (to 1533)

- 1516-1522 - He inspires active preaching work while based inPuri

- March 1517 (age 31) - Sri Rupa Gosvami arrives from Vrndavana; then Sri

Sanatana

- July 1517 - Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami is freed from family duties and comes to

Puri also

- March 1518 (age 32) - Sri Sanatana is sent Vrndavana; Vallabhacarya arrives

- 1520 (age 34) - The passing away of Sri Haridasa Thakura is celebrated

- 1532 (age 46) - The Mahaprabhu's distressful separation from Lord Krsna

increases markedly

- 1533 (age 47 ) - His disappearance pastime in the temple of Tota Gopinatha

By Dasaratha-suta das

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