Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.4.90, 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 90 of Adi-khanda chapter 4—“Name-giving Ceremony, Childhood Pastimes, and Thieves Kidnap the Lord”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.4.90:

গডাগডি যায প্রভু ধূলায ধূসর উঠি’ হাসে জননীর কোলের উপর ॥ ৯০ ॥

गडागडि याय प्रभु धूलाय धूसर उठि’ हासे जननीर कोलेर उपर ॥ ९० ॥

gaḍāgaḍi yāya prabhu dhūlāya dhūsara uṭhi’ hāse jananīra kolera upara || 90 ||

gadagadi yaya prabhu dhulaya dhusara uthi’ hase jananira kolera upara (90)

English translation:

(90) The Lord would become covered with dust as He rolled on the ground, and then He would smile and climb onto the lap of His mother.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The words gaḍāgaḍi yāya mean “rolling on the ground,” and the word

dhūsara means “dust-colored.”

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