Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.8.127, 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 127 of Antya-khanda chapter 8—“Mahaprabhu’s Water Sports in Narendra- sarovara”.
Verse 3.8.127
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.8.127:
শ্রী-গোবিন্দ-রাম-কৃষ্ণ-বিজয নৌকায লক্ষ লক্ষ লোক জলে হরিষে বেডায ॥ ১২৭ ॥
श्री-गोविन्द-राम-कृष्ण-विजय नौकाय लक्ष लक्ष लोक जले हरिषे वेडाय ॥ १२७ ॥
śrī-govinda-rāma-kṛṣṇa-vijaya naukāya lakṣa lakṣa loka jale hariṣe veḍāya || 127 ||
sri-govinda-rama-krsna-vijaya naukaya laksa laksa loka jale harise vedaya (127)
English translation:
(127) Hundreds of thousands of people in the water took great pleasure as Balarāma, Kṛṣṇa, and Govinda, the vijaya-vigraha, rode in a boat.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
TEXT 128
sei jale viṣayī, sannyāsī, brahmacārī sabei ānande bhāse jala-krīḍā kari’
Sannyāsīs, brahmacārīs, and householders all sported in the waters of Narendra-sarovara and floated in waves of bliss.
The word viṣayī refers to materially attached persons in the gṛhastha- āśrama.