Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.47, 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 47 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.
Verse 2.5.47
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.47:
সর্ব-গণে দেই জল, প্রভু করে পান সত্য যেন কাদম্বরী পিযে, হেন জ্ঞান ॥ ৪৭ ॥
सर्व-गणे देइ जल, प्रभु करे पान सत्य येन कादम्बरी पिये, हेन ज्ञान ॥ ४७ ॥
sarva-gaṇe dei jala, prabhu kare pāna satya yena kādambarī piye, hena jñāna || 47 ||
sarva-gane dei jala, prabhu kare pana satya yena kadambari piye, hena jnana (47)
English translation:
(47) All the devotees offered water, and the Lord drank. It appeared as though Lord Balarāma Himself was drinking.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The word kādambarī means (ku—“blue” + ambara—“clothes”) “He whose clothing is blue” (Balarāma) or “a type of wine made from mollasses.”