Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.1.170, 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 170 of Adi-khanda chapter 1—“Summary of Lord Gaura’s Pastimes”.
Verse 1.1.170
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.170:
শেষ-খণ্ডে, রামানন্দ-রাযের উদ্ধার শেষ-খণ্ডে, মথুরায অনেক বিহার ॥ ১৭০ ॥
शेष-खण्डे, रामानन्द-रायेर उद्धार शेष-खण्डे, मथुराय अनेक विहार ॥ १७० ॥
śeṣa-khaṇḍe, rāmānanda-rāyera uddhāra śeṣa-khaṇḍe, mathurāya aneka vihāra || 170 ||
sesa-khande, ramananda-rayera uddhara sesa-khande, mathuraya aneka vihara (170)
English translation:
(170) In the Antya-khaṇḍa the Lord delivers Rāmānanda Rāya and performs various pastimes in Mathurā.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Rāmānanda Rāya was the governor of Kaliṅga under the rule of Mahārāja Pratāparudra, the independent king of Orissa. He was the eldest of Bhavānanda Paṭṭanāyaka’s five sons. He wrote the drama Jagannātha- vallabha-nāṭaka, and he was a most intimate devotee of the Lord.
Throughout South India there was no other unalloyed devotee of Kṛṣṇa in the rāga-mārga comparable with him.