Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.4.41, 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 41 of Adi-khanda chapter 4—“Name-giving Ceremony, Childhood Pastimes, and Thieves Kidnap the Lord”.
Verse 1.4.41
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.4.41:
এই-মত প্রতি-দিন করেন কৌতুক নাম-করণের কাল হৈল সম্মুখ ॥ ৪১ ॥
एइ-मत प्रति-दिन करेन कौतुक नाम-करणेर काल हैल सम्मुख ॥ ४१ ॥
ei-mata prati-dina karena kautuka nāma-karaṇera kāla haila sammukha || 41 ||
ei-mata prati-dina karena kautuka nama-karanera kala haila sammukha (41)
English translation:
(41) In this way the Lord daily performed some mischief, and then the time for His name-giving ceremony arrived.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word nāma-karaṇa refers to one of the ten purificatory processes.