Verse 2.9.98

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.9.98:

দেখিযা তোমার দুঃখ শ্রী-বৈকুণ্ঠ হৈতে আবির্ভাব হৈলাম তোমার দেহেতে ॥ ৯৮ ॥

देखिया तोमार दुःख श्री-वैकुण्ठ हैते आविर्भाव हैलाम तोमार देहेते ॥ ९८ ॥

dekhiyā tomāra duḥkha śrī-vaikuṇṭha haite āvirbhāva hailāma tomāra dehete || 98 ||

dekhiya tomara duhkha sri-vaikuntha haite avirbhava hailama tomara dehete (98)

English translation:

(98) “Seeing your distress, I left Vaikuṇṭha and appeared in your body. The school of Śrī Devānanda Paṇḍita was at that time situated in Kuliyā. Kuliyā is a neighborhood of Navadvīpa that is situated on the western

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

bank of the Ganges. At that time the town of Navadvīpa was situated on

the eastern bank of the Ganges and is presently known as Śrī Māyāpur.

The present city of Navadvīpa is ancient Kuliyā. This is the place where one’s offenses are nullified. Some people mistakenly accept the Kuliyā village near Kāṅcaḍāpāḍā that was established by Mādhava Datta, the resident of Cucuḍa, as the Kuliyā village of Devānanda Paṇḍita. Even today various names in the present city of Navadvīpa such as Āmāda- kola, Kolera-gañja, Kolera-daha, and Gadakhālira-kola are evidence of the location of ancient Kuliyā. Some people fall into great illusion by accepting Sāta-kuliyā or Dhopādi village as the original Kuliyā. The village of Sāta-kuliyā is situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges. But those who have studied Śrī Caitanya-candrodaya-nāṭaka and Śrī Caitanya-carita-mahākāvya know for certain that the village of Kuliyā is situated on the western bank of the Ganges. Since the Ganges is not flowing on the east of Sāta-kuliyā and Śrī Māyāpur is not situated east of Sāta-kuliyā, one cannot establish Sāta-kuliyā as the original Kuliyā. The ancient riverbed of the Ganges must have been on the western side of the present Rāmacandrapura village, and since there is no evidence of Kuliyā village on the western side of this riverbed, many learned devotees consider places like Rāmacandrapura to be part of Modadruma. The ascertainment of the location of ancient Nadia through the malicious mentality of a few litterateurs who are envious and opposed to devotional service is not even worth a farthing.