Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.9.214, 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 214 of Adi-khanda chapter 9—“Nityananda’s Childhood Pastimes and Travels to Holy Places”.
Verse 1.9.214
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.214:
কি অনন্ত, কিবা শিব-অজাদি দেবতা চৈতন্য-আজ্ঞায হর্তা-কর্তা পালযিতা ॥ ২১৪ ॥
कि अनन्त, किबा शिव-अजादि देवता चैतन्य-आज्ञाय हर्ता-कर्ता पालयिता ॥ २१४ ॥
ki ananta, kibā śiva-ajādi devatā caitanya-ājñāya hartā-kartā pālayitā || 214 ||
ki ananta, kiba siva-ajadi devata caitanya-ajnaya harta-karta palayita (214)
English translation:
(214) Brahmā, Ananta, Śiva, and the other demigods create, maintain, and destroy under the order of Lord Caitanya.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word ananta refers to Viṣṇu, the maintainer, the word aja refers to Brahmā, the creator, and the word śiva refers to Hara, the destroyer.