Formerly, a still in India the practice is that people go to evacuate in the fields. So he says that you will tell to the Nawab that Sanātana was allowed to go to evacuate himself in the fields.
- tāṅhāre kahio—sei bāhya-kṛtye gela
- (CC Madhya 20.11)
To evacuate, he went to evacuate himself.
- gaṅgāra nikaṭa gaṅgā dekhi' jhāṅpa dila
- (CC Madhya 20.11)
But suddenly from the bank of the Ganges he jumped over. Sanātana līlā.
- aneka dekhila, tāra lāg nā pāila
- (CC Madhya 20.12)
I enquired so much but I could not trace him:
- lāg nā pāila.
- dāḍukā-sahita ḍubi kāhāṅ vahi' gela
- (CC Madhya 20.12)
He was, what is call? Handcuffed; and because he jumped he could not swim so by the waves of the Ganges he was carried away. I could not save him. "You tell the Nawab like this." So he, he thought it is nice, wise advice. So he took the money, dāḍukā saiva.
- kichu bhaya nāhi, āmi e-deśe nā raba
- (CC Madhya 20.13)
And don't be afraid. I am leaving this country for good. Nobody will be able to trace me. Just like Subhash Ghosh left this country. So similarly the Sanātana Gosvāmī did. He was also helped by the then Minister Mira Murji.
- kichu bhaya nāhi, āmi e-deśe nā raba
- daraveśa hañāāmi makkāke yāiba"
- (CC Madhya 20.13)
That I'll become a dervish and I shall go to Mecca. So the superintendent jail agreed.
- tathāpi yavana-mana prasanna nā dekhilā
- sāta-hājāra mudrā tāra āge rāśi kailā
- (CC Madhya 20.14)
When Sanātana Gosvāmī saw that a still he was hesitating then he increased the amount to $7,000.
- lobha ha-ila yavanera mudrā dekhiyā
- (CC Madhya 20.15)
When the money was placed before him. He became captivated, "Oh, so much money I am getting. All right."
- rātre gaṅgā-pāra kaila dāḍukā kāṭiyā
- (CC Madhya 20.15)
Then he was released. He was taken off the handcuffs and at night was released.
- gaḍa-dvāra-patha chāḍilā, nāre tāhāṅ yāite
- rātri-dina cali' āilā pātaḍā-parvate
- (CC Madhya 20.16)
Pātaḍā-parvate, he attained somewhere here in the Bihar province. So, walking, walking, walking for days he came to the pātaḍā-parvate hill.
- tathā eka bhaumika haya, tāra ṭhāñi gelā
- 'parvata pāra kara āmā'—vinati karilā
- (CC Madhya 20.17)
Formally there was instead of hotel there was sarāi. In one of the sarāis he took shelter and he requested him that, "I do not know the way." Because he was coming to Benares from Bengal to Benares. And in the middle he had to pass this . . . (indistinct) . . . area, very hilly tract. So he in a sarāi, he requested the sarāi keeper that, "Kindly help me to cross this hill I want to go to Benares."