Verse 1.8.66

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.8.66:

এই ক্রীডা লাগিযা সর্ব-জ্ঞ বৃহস্পতি শিষ্য-সহ নবদ্বীপে হৈলা উত্পত্তি ॥ ৬৬ ॥

एइ क्रीडा लागिया सर्व-ज्ञ बृहस्पति शिष्य-सह नवद्वीपे हैला उत्पत्ति ॥ ६६ ॥

ei krīḍā lāgiyā sarva-jña bṛhaspati śiṣya-saha navadvīpe hailā utpatti || 66 ||

ei krida lagiya sarva-jna brhaspati sisya-saha navadvipe haila utpatti (66)

English translation:

(66) To assist in His pastimes, the omniscient Bṛhaspati took birth in Navadvīpa along with his disciples.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word sarva-jña is another name for the original Viṣṇusvāmī. He appeared at Candanavana-Kalyanapura, in the province of Pandya. He is the first Vaiṣṇava ācārya in this age of Kali. He defeated the philosophy of Buddhism and brought Śrī Jagannāthadeva to Sundarācala. Three hundred years before Christ a king named Vijaya Pandya appeared. After he conquered Śrī Puruṣottama and brought Lord Jagannātha to his own province, the Buddhists returned Lord Jagannātha to Nīlācala. A few hundred years later, during the reign of Sundara Pandya, he was reminded of the place where Lord Jagannātha was brought while going to conquer the northern provinces. That place, known as Sundarācala, later became

known as Guṇḍicā. Shortly before this incident a disciple of Śaṅkarācārya named Padmapādācārya built a maṭha at the place known as Chatrabhoga. Later on this maṭha was shifted to the shore of the ocean by Śrī Rāmānujācārya. There is a book named Saṅkṣepa-śārīraka in the

Śaṅkara-sampradāya that is said to be written by Sarvajñātma Muni. But this Sarvajñātma Muni cannot be the Sarvajña Muni who established the philosophy of śuddhādvaita. There is another Sarvajña in the Jain sampradāya as well. In the disciplic succession of Sarvajña Muni there were many disciples, including Bṛhaspati.