Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.21, 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 21 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.
Verse 1.9.21
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.21:
কোন শিশু সাজাযেন পূতনার রূপে কেহ স্তন পান করে উঠি’ তা’র বুকে ॥ ২১ ॥
कोन शिशु साजायेन पूतनार रूपे केह स्तन पान करे उठि’ ता’र बुके ॥ २१ ॥
kona śiśu sājāyena pūtanāra rūpe keha stana pāna kare uṭhi’ tā’ra buke || 21 ||
kona sisu sajayena putanara rupe keha stana pana kare uthi’ ta’ra buke (21)
English translation:
(21) Another time they dressed someone as Pūtanā, and someone climbed on her chest to suck her breast.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Regarding Kṛṣṇa’s drinking milk from Pūtanā’s breast, the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.6.10) states: “On that very spot, the fiercely dangerous Rākṣasī Pūtanā took Kṛṣṇa on her lap and pushed her breast into His mouth. The nipple of her breast was smeared with a dangerous, immediately effective poison, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, becoming very angry at her, took hold of her breast, squeezed it very hard with both hands, and sucked out both the poison and her life.”