Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.15.49, 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 49 of Madhya-khanda chapter 15—“Descriptions of Madhavananda’s Realization”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.15.49:

যে অঙ্গ লঙ্ঘিযা ইন্দ্রজিত গেল ক্ষয যে অঙ্গ লঙ্ঘিযা দ্বিবিদের নাশ হয ॥ ৪৯ ॥

ये अङ्ग लङ्घिया इन्द्रजित गेल क्षय ये अङ्ग लङ्घिया द्विविदेर नाश हय ॥ ४९ ॥

ye aṅga laṅghiyā indrajita gela kṣaya ye aṅga laṅghiyā dvividera nāśa haya || 49 ||

ye anga langhiya indrajita gela ksaya ye anga langhiya dvividera nasa haya (49)

English translation:

(49) “Indrajit and Dvivida were both vanquished because they attacked this form.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

In His incarnation as Lakṣmaṇa, Śrīman Nityānanda Prabhu killed Indrajit. (One should discuss Rāmāyaṇa, Laṅkā-kāṇḍa, Chapters Eighty- four to Ninety-one.)

The phrase dvividera nāśa is explained as follows: The monkey Dvivida was a friend of Narakāsura. In order to take revenge for the killing of his friend, this monkey created various disturbances in Gokula, the residence of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Naraka. At that time Śrī Baladeva, who was intoxicated from drinking Vāruṇī, was in the midst of attractive young ladies on Raivataka Mountain. When Dvivida went there, insulted Baladeva and the young ladies, and created various disturbances, Baladeva killed him. (See Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter Sixty-seven.)

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