Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.23.336, 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 336 of Madhya-khanda chapter 23—“Wandering about Navadvipa On the Day the Lord Delivered the Kazi”.
Verse 2.23.336
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.23.336:
নগরিযা সকলের উন্মাদ দেখিযা মরযে পাষণ্ডী সব জ্বলিযা পুডিযা ॥ ৩৩৬ ॥
नगरिया सकलेर उन्माद देखिया मरये पाषण्डी सब ज्वलिया पुडिया ॥ ३३६ ॥
nagariyā sakalera unmāda dekhiyā maraye pāṣaṇḍī saba jvaliyā puḍiyā || 336 ||
nagariya sakalera unmada dekhiya maraye pasandi saba jvaliya pudiya (336)
English translation:
(336) As the atheists saw the maddened condition of the townspeople, they burned with envy.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The atheists who maintained the mentality of opposing the process of worshiping and chanting the holy names always burned with envy and invoked one of the ten types of death. To extinguish the fire in their bodies, they enviously become hostile to the devotees.