Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.31, 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 31 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.
Verse 1.9.31
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.31:
বিকালে আইসে ঘর গোষ্ঠির সহিতে শিশু-গণ-সঙ্গে শৃঙ্গ বাইতে বাইতে ॥ ৩১ ॥
विकाले आइसे घर गोष्ठिर सहिते शिशु-गण-सङ्गे शृङ्ग बाइते बाइते ॥ ३१ ॥
vikāle āise ghara goṣṭhira sahite śiśu-gaṇa-saṅge śṛṅga bāite bāite || 31 ||
vikale aise ghara gosthira sahite sisu-gana-sange srnga baite baite (31)
English translation:
(31) In the afternoon the Lord and His associates returned home blowing buffalo horns.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The musical instrument śṛṅga is made from a horn and is called śiṅgā
and viṣāṇa.
Bāite bāite comes from the word bāya, which is a corruption of the word