Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.7.203, 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 203 of Adi-khanda chapter 7—“Shri Vishvarupa Takes Sannyasa”.
Verse 1.7.203
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.7.203:
শ্রী কৃষ্ণ-চৈতন্য নিত্যানন্দ-চান্দ জান বৃন্দাবন দাস তছু পদ-যুগে গান ॥ ২০৩ ॥
श्री कृष्ण-चैतन्य नित्यानन्द-चान्द जान वृन्दावन दास तछु पद-युगे गान ॥ २०३ ॥
śrī kṛṣṇa-caitanya nityānanda-cānda jāna vṛndāvana dāsa tachu pada-yuge gāna || 203 ||
sri krsna-caitanya nityananda-canda jana vrndavana dasa tachu pada-yuge gana (203)
English translation:
(203) Accepting Śrī Caitanya and Nityānanda Prabhu as my life and soul, I,
Vṛndāvana dāsa, sing the glories of Their lotus feet.
Thus ends the English translation of the Gauḍīya-bhāṣya of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Chapter Seven, entitled “Śrī Viśvarūpa Takes Sannyāsa.”
1 Däri-sannyäsés are a class of married sannyäsés, and païca-makära refers to mäàsa, madya, matsya, mahila, and maithuna—meat, wine, fish, women, and sex.