Srila Prabhupada Pauganda Lila Quiz

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Srila Prabhupada Pauganda Lila Quiz

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Abhay first went to the Marwari Vidyalaya which was within the half portion of the house he lived in. A drunkard step-son of Abhay's grandmother had illegally sold the house to a Marwari. The matter went to court, which gave the old lady to stay in the half portion of the house as she had nowhere to go. The Marwari opened a school in the other half portion of the house. Abhay was staying in that half portion of the house with his parents. Since there was a school within the house, Abhay's father thought to enroll him there. In this way, Srila Prabhupada first went to the Marwari school and got to learn Hindi at an early age.

How old was Abhay when he started going to a formal school outside his house?

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Which was Srila Prabhupada's first formal School outside the house? Remember, he first went to Marwari Vidyalaya school that was within his house.

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When Abhay was child, he asked his father for a Deity of his own to worship. Since infancy he had watched his father doing pūjā at home and had been regularly seeing the worship of Rādhā-Govinda and thinking, “When will I be able to worship Kṛṣṇa like this?” On Abhay’s request, his father purchased a pair of little Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deities and gave Them to him. From then on, whatever Abhay ate he would first offer to Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and imitating his father and the priests of Rādhā-Govinda, he would offer his Deities a ghee lamp and put Them to rest at night. How old was Abhay when he received his own Deities?

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As a child, Abhay got his own cart performed his own Ratha-yātrā. Like the festival at Purī, Abhay’s Ratha-yātrā ran for eight consecutive days. His family members gathered, and the neighborhood children joined in a procession, pulling the cart, playing drums and karatālas, and chanting. Wearing a dhotī and no shirt in the heat of summer, Abhay led the children in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa and in singing the appropriate Bengali bhajanas. Mothers in the neighborhood would cook special preparations so that he could distribute the prasādam at his Ratha-yātrā festival. What was Abhay's age when he conducted this first Ratha-Yatra?

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Who was Abhay's childhood play friend? His friend had a younger brother by the name of Shyamsundara Mullick, whom they called Gabu.

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When Abhay will hold Ratha Yatra as part of his child play. The Mullicks would criticize Abhay's father by saying

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Abhay would get a gold-plated copper coin every year from his grandmother. He will save it with her mother. However, when his mother was angry with Abhay, he would

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At the age when Abhay was conducting the Ratha Yatra, one of his activities at leisure was to consult the carriage timetable - "How to go to Puri and Vrindavana? What is the fare?" What does Srila Prabhupada remember the carriage fare to Puri and Vrindavana to be?

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