Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.1.70, 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 70 of Antya-khanda chapter 1—“Meeting Again at the House of Shri Advaita Acarya”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.1.70:

সেহো সব জন এবে প্রভুর কৃপায সেই প্রেম সঙরিযা কান্দি’ গডি যায ॥ ৭০ ॥

सेहो सब जन एबे प्रभुर कृपाय सेइ प्रेम सङरिया कान्दि’ गडि याय ॥ ७० ॥

seho saba jana ebe prabhura kṛpāya sei prema saṅariyā kāndi’ gaḍi yāya || 70 ||

seho saba jana ebe prabhura krpaya sei prema sanariya kandi’ gadi yaya (70)

English translation:

(70) But now, by the Lord’s mercy, even such people began to roll on the ground and cry as they remembered that display of love.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Another reading of kāndi’ (“cry”) is kānde (“cry”). The word gaḍi means “rolling on the ground” or “falling to the ground.”

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