Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.1, 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 1 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.
Verse 2.5.1
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.1:
জয নবদ্বীপ-নব-প্রদীপ প্রভাবঃ পাষণ্ড-গজৈক-সিংহঃ স্বনাম-সঙ্খ্যা-জপ-সূত্র-ধারী চৈতন্য-চন্দ্রো ভগবান্ মুরারিঃ ॥ ১ ॥
जय नवद्वीप-नव-प्रदीप प्रभावः पाषण्ड-गजैक-सिंहः स्वनाम-सङ्ख्या-जप-सूत्र-धारी चैतन्य-चन्द्रो भगवान् मुरारिः ॥ १ ॥
jaya navadvīpa-nava-pradīpa prabhāvaḥ pāṣaṇḍa-gajaika-siṃhaḥ svanāma-saṅkhyā-japa-sūtra-dhārī caitanya-candro bhagavān murāriḥ || 1 ||
jaya navadvipa-nava-pradipa prabhavah pasanda-gajaika-simhah svanama-sankhya-japa-sutra-dhari caitanya-candro bhagavan murarih (1)
English translation:
(1) All glories to Caitanyacandra, who is nondifferent from Lord Murāri, who is the new lamp of Navadvīpa, who is like an unparalleled lion in subduing the elephant-like atheists, and who holds a string for counting His own names, “Hare Kṛṣṇa,” which He chants.