Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.48, 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 48 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.
Verse 2.5.48
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.48:
চতুর্-দিকে রাম-স্তুতি পডে ভক্ত-গণ ‘নাডা, নাডা, ‘নাডা প্রভু বলে অনুক্ষণ ॥ ৪৮ ॥
चतुर्-दिके राम-स्तुति पडे भक्त-गण ‘नाडा, नाडा, ‘नाडा प्रभु बले अनुक्षण ॥ ४८ ॥
catur-dike rāma-stuti paḍe bhakta-gaṇa ‘nāḍā, nāḍā, ‘nāḍā prabhu bale anukṣaṇa || 48 ||
catur-dike rama-stuti pade bhakta-gana ‘nada, nada, ‘nada prabhu bale anuksana (48)
English translation:
(48) The devotees on all sides offered prayers in glorification of Balarāma
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
as the Lord constantly called out, “Nāḍā, Nāḍā, Nāḍā.”
The phrase rāma-stuti refers to prayers in glorification of Balarāma. For an explanation of the word nāḍā one should see the purport to Madhya- khaṇḍa, Chapter Two, verse 264.