Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
In this temple one can see the ‘pratibhu-murti’ of Lord Madana-mohana. The original Deity of Madana-mohana was worshiped at Dwadashaditya-tila, a hill-top on the bank of the River Yamuna in Vrindavana by Shrila Sanatana Goswami. The Deity was established by King Vajranabha around five thousand years earlier, but in the course of time was lost and rediscovered by Shrila Adwaita Acharya, at the place known as Adwaita Vat just below Dwadashaditya-tila. When Adwaita Acharya returned to Nadia he arranged for a local brahmana named Choube to continue the worship of the Deity, thus, according to the Bhakti-ratnakara, Madana-Mohana was being worshiped at a temple in Mahavana by the Choube family. When Sanatana Goswami was living in Vrindavana, he received instructions in a dream from Madana-Mohana that he should personally take charge of the seva-puja and brings the Deity back to Vrindavana, which he did. After some years a temple was built for Lord Madana-Mohana at the place where Sanatana Goswami performed his bhajana on the hill known as Dwadashaditya-tila. Some years later due to an imminent attack on Vrindavana by the Muslim tyrant Aurangzeb in 1670, the Deity of Madana-Mohana was moved along with Govindaji, Gopinathaji and Vrinda Devi to Radha-kunda, then to Kamyavana, where they remained for three or four days before being taken to Jaipura exceptn for Vrinda Devi who refused to leave the holy dhama. Later the Deity of Madana-mohana was again moved to Kiraoli near Bharatapura.
