Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.395, 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 395 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.
Verse 3.5.395
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.395:
সেই গ্রামে কাজীআছে পরম দুর্বার কীর্তনের প্রতি দ্বেষ করযে অপার ॥ ৩৯৫ ॥
सेइ ग्रामे काजीआछे परम दुर्बार कीर्तनेर प्रति द्वेष करये अपार ॥ ३९५ ॥
sei grāme kājīāche parama durbāra kīrtanera prati dveṣa karaye apāra || 395 ||
sei grame kajiache parama durbara kirtanera prati dvesa karaye apara (395)
English translation:
(395) There was a most sinful Kazi living in that village. He strongly opposed the performance of kīrtana.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In that village of Eṅḍiyādaha there lived a most powerful Kazi who was greatly inimical to religious principles and who strongly opposed the congregational glorification of Hari.