Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.10.80, 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 80 of Adi-khanda chapter 10—“Marriage with Shri Lakshmipriya”.
Verse 1.10.80
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.10.80:
চতুর্-দিকে দ্বিজ-গণ করে বেদ-ধ্বনি মধ্যে চন্দ্র-সম বসিলেন দ্বিজ-মণি ॥ ৮০ ॥
चतुर्-दिके द्विज-गण करे वेद-ध्वनि मध्ये चन्द्र-सम वसिलेन द्विज-मणि ॥ ८० ॥
catur-dike dvija-gaṇa kare veda-dhvani madhye candra-sama vasilena dvija-maṇi || 80 ||
catur-dike dvija-gana kare veda-dhvani madhye candra-sama vasilena dvija-mani (80)
English translation:
(80) All around the brāhmaṇas recited Vedic hymns as Nimāi, the jewel of the twice-born, appeared like the moon in their midst.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
While performing the ritualistic ceremonies and purificatory rites prescribed in the gṛha-sūtras, Vedic mantras are recited. Udvāha, or the marriage ceremony, is one of the forty-eight, sixteen, or ten saṃskāras.