Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.3.165, 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 165 of Antya-khanda chapter 3—“Mahaprabhu’s Deliverance of Sarvabhauma, Exhibition of His Six-armed Form, and Journey to Bengal”.
Verse 3.3.165
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.3.165:
চন্দন-মালায পরিপূর্ণ কলেবর মত্ত-সিংহ জিনি’ গতি মন্থর সুন্দর ॥ ১৬৫ ॥
चन्दन-मालाय परिपूर्ण कलेवर मत्त-सिंह जिनि’ गति मन्थर सुन्दर ॥ १६५ ॥
candana-mālāya paripūrṇa kalevara matta-siṃha jini’ gati manthara sundara || 165 ||
candana-malaya paripurna kalevara matta-simha jini’ gati manthara sundara (165)
English translation:
(165) His entire body was decorated with sandalwood paste and flower garlands, and His sweet slow gait was like that of an intoxicated lion.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In the Mahābhārata (Dāna-dharma 149) it is stated: suvarṇa-varṇo hemāṅgo varāṅgaś candanāṅgadī—“In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold.”