Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.7.120, 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 120 of Adi-khanda chapter 7—“Shri Vishvarupa Takes Sannyasa”.
Verse 1.7.120
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.7.120:
শুনিলেই সর্ব অর্থ আপনে বাখানে তা’ন ফাঙ্কি বাখানিতে নারে কোন জনে” ॥ ১২০ ॥
शुनिलेइ सर्व अर्थ आपने वाखाने ता’न फाङ्कि वाखानिते नारे कोन जने” ॥ १२० ॥
śunilei sarva artha āpane vākhāne tā’na phāṅki vākhānite nāre kona jane” || 120 ||
sunilei sarva artha apane vakhane ta’na phanki vakhanite nare kona jane” (120)
English translation:
(120) “He can explain the meaning of anything He hears just once. No one is able to defeat His reasoning.”
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word phāṅki is a corruption of the Sanskrit word phakkikā, which means “finding faults in a conclusion, creating doubt, and again reestablishing the original conclusion,” “shrewd argument,” or “cleverly.”