Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.2.61, 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 61 of Antya-khanda chapter 2—“Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneshvara and Other Placesto Jagannatha Puri”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.61-062:

সেই ছত্রভোগে গঙ্গা হৈ’ শতমুখী বহিতে আছেন সর্ব-জনে করি’ সুখী জল-ময শিব-লিঙ্গ আছে সেই স্থানে `অম্বু-লিঙ্গ ঘাট’ করি’ বলে সর্ব-জনে ॥ ৬১-০৬২ ॥

सेइ छत्रभोगे गङ्गा है’ शतमुखी वहिते आछेन सर्व-जने करि’ सुखी जल-मय शिव-लिङ्ग आछे सेइ स्थाने `अम्बु-लिङ्ग घाट’ करि’ बले सर्व-जने ॥ ६१-०६२ ॥

sei chatrabhoge gaṅgā hai’ śatamukhī vahite āchena sarva-jane kari’ sukhī jala-maya śiva-liṅga āche sei sthāne `ambu-liṅga ghāṭa’ kari’ bale sarva-jane || 61-062 ||

sei chatrabhoge ganga hai’ satamukhi vahite achena sarva-jane kari’ sukhi jala-maya siva-linga ache sei sthane `ambu-linga ghata’ kari’ bale sarva-jane (61-062)

English translation:

(61-062) In Chatrabhoga the Ganges flows in a hundred streams, thereby making everyone happy. At this place there is spot known to everyone

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

as Ambuliṅga-ghāṭa, where there is a Śiva-liṅga made of water. Chatrabhoga is situated in the 41st subdivision of the district of 24- Parganas. It is situated in the police jurisdiction of Mathurāpura. It is four

and a half miles from the Mathurāpura Road railway station, which is on

the East Bengal railway line. There is a huge temple of Tripurāsundarī Mahāmāyā there. The Ambuliṅga-ghāṭa is about one and a half miles from the temple of Tripurāsundarī. The present name of Ambuliṅga-ghāṭa is Baḍāsī-grāma. It is situated in the 43rd subdivision within the police jurisdiction of Mathurāpura. When Mahāprabhu visited this place, the Ganges flowed in a hundred streams on the eastern side of Baḍāsī-grāma. Although at present the hundred streams of the Ganges are not seen, there are still some signs like deep ravines there. The temple of Ambu-liṅga is still found there. When we inquired from the local people, we learned that the temple and its properties were managed by Mahānta Śrīyukta Satish Giri of Tārakeśvara, but as a result of litigation they have been transferred to one Śrīyukta Varadā Prasāda Rāya Chaudhurī, a landlord of Kāśī-nagara.

Within the temple is situated Ambu-liṅga Śiva. There is one piece of stone in the temple that resembles a Gaurī-paṭṭa [the base that supports a Śiva-liṅga]. In the middle of that stone there is a hole filled with water.

The Ambu-liṅga is situated within that water. On the forehead of that liṅga there is a silver half-moon. Above this liṅga there are Deities of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa and Gopāla. The site known as Cakra-tīrtha is situated nearly one mile southeast of Ambu-liṅga. Local people say that the Ganges flowed through that place long ago. At present one can see a pond as the remnant of the Ganges. There is a Deity of Viṣṇu there known as Mādhava. During the local festival, people first take bath in that pond and then worship the Lord at Cakra-tīrtha. In the month of May, 1930, we, along with many other Vaiṣṇavas, visited Chatrabhoga to select a place to establish the footprints of Śrī Śrī Caitanya. For an elaborate description of this, one should read Gauḍīya magazine, 8th year, number 42.

Now a temple of Śrī Gaura’s lotus feet has been established at this place

by the joint endeavor of the President and devotees of Śrī Caitanya Maṭha, Māyāpur, the birthplace of Śrī Gaura.

The site of Ambu-liṅga is currently owned by Śrīyukta Varadākānta Prasāda Rāya Chaudhurī. One can still see moss-covered Ganges water at this place.

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