Verse 2.23.106

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.23.106:

কাজী বলে,—“হিন্দুযানি হৈল নদীযা করিমু ইহার শাস্তি নাগালি পাইযা ॥ ১০৬ ॥

काजी बले,—“हिन्दुयानि हैल नदीया करिमु इहार शास्ति नागालि पाइया ॥ १०६ ॥

kājī bale,—“hinduyāni haila nadīyā karimu ihāra śāsti nāgāli pāiyā || 106 ||

kaji bale,—“hinduyani haila nadiya karimu ihara sasti nagali paiya (106)

English translation:

(106) The Kazi said, “The entire Nadia has been overrun by the Hindus. When I catch them, I’ll punish them.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Since the śrutis, smṛtis, Purāṇas, and Pañcarātras prescribe activities like worshiping the Lord and chanting His names, the sinful atheists considered such activities as part of Hindu culture. The staunch belief of those sinful people was that by uprooting Vedic principles and establishing a new religion, their prestige and religion would be maintained. Therefore they disturbed the inhabitants of Navadvīpa who faithfully engaged in kīrtana by indiscriminately arresting them. They beat some of them and indulged in activities opposed to the proper codes of conduct prescribed in the śāstras by breaking musical instruments. The plan of the sinful atheists was to uproot the social, natural, and spiritual rules and regulations of the various pious persons and inaugurate their new rules and regulations. When they saw in the dealings of Śrī Gaurasundara the reestablishment of religious principles described in the Vedas and Vedic literatures, they got the opportunity to stop that.

Because they were administrators, they got the opportunity to suppress the citizens in the name of religion.