Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.3.88, 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 88 of Antya-khanda chapter 3—“Mahaprabhu’s Deliverance of Sarvabhauma, Exhibition of His Six-armed Form, and Journey to Bengal”.
Verse 3.3.88
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.3.88:
সরস্বতী-পতি গৌরচন্দ্রের অগ্রেতে কৃপায লাগিলা সার্বভৌম বাখানিতে ॥ ৮৮ ॥
सरस्वती-पति गौरचन्द्रेर अग्रेते कृपाय लागिला सार्वभौम वाखानिते ॥ ८८ ॥
sarasvatī-pati gauracandrera agrete kṛpāya lāgilā sārvabhauma vākhānite || 88 ||
sarasvati-pati gauracandrera agrete krpaya lagila sarvabhauma vakhanite (88)
English translation:
(88) Then, in the presence of Gauracandra, the husband of Sarasvatī, and by His mercy, Sārvabhauma began to explain this verse.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Śrī Vāgdevī (Sarasvatī, the goddess of speech) is mentioned in the Vājasaneya-saṃhitā, quoted in the Govinda-bhāṣya (3.3.40), as follows: śrīś ca te lakṣmīś ca patnyau—“O Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī and Lakṣmī are Your wives.”
In the Nārada-pañcarātra (2.3.64) it is stated:
sarasvatī bhāratī ca yogena siddha-yoginī bhāratī brahma-patnī ca viṣṇu-patnī sarasvatī
“By the order of Lord Hari, Sarasvatī devī accepted two forms. In one form she was Sarasvatī, the perfect mystic yogini, and in another form she was Bhāratī. Bhāratī became the wife of Brahmā, and Sarasvatī became the wife of Viṣṇu.”