Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.2.57, 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 57 of Adi-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Appearance”.
Verse 1.2.57
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.2.57:
নবদ্বীপ-সম্পত্তি কে বর্ণিবারে পারে? একো গঙ্গা-ঘাটে লক্ষ লোক স্নান করে ॥ ৫৭ ॥
नवद्वीप-सम्पत्ति के वर्णिबारे पारे? एको गङ्गा-घाटे लक्ष लोक स्नान करे ॥ ५७ ॥
navadvīpa-sampatti ke varṇibāre pāre? eko gaṅgā-ghāṭe lakṣa loka snāna kare || 57 ||
navadvipa-sampatti ke varnibare pare? eko ganga-ghate laksa loka snana kare (57)
English translation:
(57) Who can describe the opulences of Navadvīpa? One hundred thousand people would take bath at one bathing ghāṭa.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
No one is able to describe with words the opulences and prosperity of Navadvīpa at that time. Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma was decorated with all the good fortune of the seven holy cities of India that award liberation—Ayodhyā, Mathurā, Haridvāra, Kāśī (Benares), Kāñcī, Avantī (Ujjain),
and Dvārakā—and thus qualified to bear Śrī Caitanyadeva’s transcendental lotus feet, which purify the world. At that time Śrī Māyāpur-dhāma was so thickly populated that innumerable residents and visitors would bathe at each ghāṭa on the Ganges.