Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.720, 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 720 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.
Verse 3.5.720
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.720:
যাঙ্র যাঙ্র সঙ্গে নিত্যানন্দের বিহার সবে নন্দ-গোষ্ঠী গোপ-গোপী-অবতার ॥ ৭২০ ॥
याङ्र याङ्र सङ्गे नित्यानन्देर विहार सबे नन्द-गोष्ठी गोप-गोपी-अवतार ॥ ७२० ॥
yāṅra yāṅra saṅge nityānandera vihāra sabe nanda-goṣṭhī gopa-gopī-avatāra || 720 ||
yanra yanra sange nityanandera vihara sabe nanda-gosthi gopa-gopi-avatara (720)
English translation:
(720) The devotees with whom Nityānanda enjoyed pastimes were all incarnations of the cowherd boy and cowherd girl associates of Nanda Mahārāja.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The associates of Śrī Nityānanda were cowherd boys, cowherd girls, and family members of Nanda Mahārāja in Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes.