Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.13.19, 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 19 of Adi-khanda chapter 13—“Defeating Digvijayi”.
Verse 1.13.19
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.13.19:
হেন-কালে তথা এক মহা-দিগ্বিজযী আইল পরম-অহঙ্কার-যুক্ত হৈ’ ॥ ১৯ ॥
हेन-काले तथा एक महा-दिग्विजयी आइल परम-अहङ्कार-युक्त है’ ॥ १९ ॥
hena-kāle tathā eka mahā-digvijayī āila parama-ahaṅkāra-yukta hai’ || 19 ||
hena-kale tatha eka maha-digvijayi aila parama-ahankara-yukta hai’ (19)
English translation:
(19) In the meantime a proud champion of learning arrived in Navadvīpa.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Some people say that mahā-digvijayī refers to Keśava Kāśmīrī, or Keśava Bhaṭṭa, the disciple of Gāṅgalya Bhaṭṭa of the Nimbārka-sampradāya. In consideration of the time factor, there is a difference of opinion in this regard. In his Dig-darśinī commentary on the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, Śrīmad Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī Prabhu has quoted many verses from Keśava Bhaṭṭa’s Krama-dīpikā as evidence. Later on, this Keśava Bhaṭṭa was accepted as an ācārya in the disciplic succession of the Nimbārka- sampradāya. If Keśava Bhaṭṭa, the author of Krama-dīpikā, was accepted in the disciplic succession of the Nimbārka-sampradāya, however, then the author of Śrī Hari-bhakti-vilāsa would have mentioned it in his writing.