Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.2.438, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 438 of Antya-khanda chapter 2—“Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneshvara and Other Placesto Jagannatha Puri”.
Verse 3.2.438
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.438:
সেই প্রভু গৌরচন্দ্র চতুর্-ব্যূহ-রূপে আপনে বসিযা আছে সিংহাসনে সুখে ॥ ৪৩৮ ॥
सेइ प्रभु गौरचन्द्र चतुर्-व्यूह-रूपे आपने वसिया आछे सिंहासने सुखे ॥ ४३८ ॥
sei prabhu gauracandra catur-vyūha-rūpe āpane vasiyā āche siṃhāsane sukhe || 438 ||
sei prabhu gauracandra catur-vyuha-rupe apane vasiya ache simhasane sukhe (438)
English translation:
(438) That same Lord Gauracandra was happily sitting on the siṃhāsana in His quadruple expansions as Jagannātha and Saṅkarṣaṇa.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (12.11.21) it is stated:
vāsudevaḥ saṅkarṣaṇaḥ pradyumnaḥ puruṣaḥ svayam aniruddha iti brahman mūrti-vyūho ‘bhidhīyate
“Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha are the names of the direct personal expansions of the Supreme Godhead, O brāhmaṇa Śaunaka.”