Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.180, 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 180 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.180:

মাধবেন্দ্র-সঙ্গে যত হৈল আখ্যান কে জানযে তাহা, কৃষ্ণচন্দ্র সে প্রমাণ ॥ ১৮০ ॥

माधवेन्द्र-सङ्गे यत हैल आख्यान के जानये ताहा, कृष्णचन्द्र से प्रमाण ॥ १८० ॥

mādhavendra-saṅge yata haila ākhyāna ke jānaye tāhā, kṛṣṇacandra se pramāṇa || 180 ||

madhavendra-sange yata haila akhyana ke janaye taha, krsnacandra se pramana (180)

English translation:

(180) Who can know all the incidents that took place between Nityānanda and Mādhavendra Purī? Only Kṛṣṇa can know.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The phrase kṛṣṇacandra se pramāṇa indicates that only Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the worshipable Lord for both Viṣṇu and the Vaiṣṇavas and, as the Supersoul of everyone, He knows everything.

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