Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.14.12, 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 12 of Madhya-khanda chapter 14—“Yamaraja’s Sankirtana”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.14.12:

লক্ষেক কাযস্থ যদি এক মাস পডি তথাপি পাইতে অন্ত শীঘ্র নহে বডি ॥ ১২ ॥

लक्षेक कायस्थ यदि एक मास पडि तथापि पाइते अन्त शीघ्र नहे वडि ॥ १२ ॥

lakṣeka kāyastha yadi eka māsa paḍi tathāpi pāite anta śīghra nahe vaḍi || 12 ||

lakseka kayastha yadi eka masa padi tathapi paite anta sighra nahe vadi (12)

English translation:

(12) “If a hundred thousand scribes continually recited for one month, they would not easily complete such a task.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Dharmarāja, or Yamarāja, gives award and punishment for one’s pious and sinful activities. He has fourteen associates. Among them, Citragupta is his principle secretary. Since the kāyasthas (scribes) are descendants of Citragupta, they calculate and record the piety and impiety of human beings. If one hundred thousand kāyasthas continually recorded the sinful activities of those two for one month, they would not be able to record all their sins.

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