Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.3.34, 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 34 of Adi-khanda chapter 3—“Calculation of the Lord’s Horoscope”.
Verse 1.3.34
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.3.34:
দেব-স্ত্রীযে নর-স্ত্রীযে না পারি চিনিতে দেবে নরে একত্র হৈল ভাল-মতে ॥ ৩৪ ॥
देव-स्त्रीये नर-स्त्रीये ना पारि चिनिते देवे नरे एकत्र हैल भाल-मते ॥ ३४ ॥
deva-strīye nara-strīye nā pāri cinite deve nare ekatra haila bhāla-mate || 34 ||
deva-striye nara-striye na pari cinite deve nare ekatra haila bhala-mate (34)
English translation:
(34) Demigoddesses mixed unnoticed with the ladies present there.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
After understanding that the Lord had advented, the wives of the demigods mixed with the ladies of this world and assembled at the house of Jagannātha Miśra with a desire to see the Lord. No one could distinguish the demigoddess from the worldly women.