Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.13.280, 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 280 of Madhya-khanda chapter 13—“The Deliverance of Jagai and Madhai”.
Verse 2.13.280
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.13.280:
মহাভক্ত গজরাজ করিল স্তবন একান্ত শরণ দেখি’ করিলা মোচন ॥ ২৮০ ॥
महाभक्त गजराज करिल स्तवन एकान्त शरण देखि’ करिला मोचन ॥ २८० ॥
mahābhakta gajarāja karila stavana ekānta śaraṇa dekhi’ karilā mocana || 280 ||
mahabhakta gajaraja karila stavana ekanta sarana dekhi’ karila mocana (280)
English translation:
(280) “The great devotee Gajendra offered You prayers, and You delivered him because he was fully surrendered.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In the valley of Trikūṭa Mountain there is an attractive lake in Varuṇa’s Ṛtumat garden. Once when Gajendra came there with some female elephants and became maddened by sporting in the water, a powerful crocodile attacked his feet. Gajendra fought with that crocodile for one thousand years, yet he could not get free from his grip. When Gajendra’s strength gradually diminished and he could not find any other means, he began to offer the Indradumna-stotra to Śrī Hari, who then appeared there and, after cutting the head of that crocodile with His disc, He delivered Gajendra. (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Eighth Canto, Chapters Two and Three)