1|Adi 11-1975: The Expansions of Lord Nityananda
2|Chapter 11
3|The Expansions of Lord Nityananda
4|As the branches and subbranches of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu
>|were described in the Tenth Chapter, in this Eleventh
>|Chapter the branches and subbranches of Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu are similarly listed.
5|Adi 11.1
6|TEXT 1
7|TEXT
8|nityananda-padambhoja-
9|bhrngan prema-madhunmadan
10|natvakhilan tesu mukhya
11|likhyante katicin maya
12|SYNONYMS
13|nityananda-of Lord Sri Nityananda; pada-ambhoja-lotus feet;
>|bhrngan-the bumblebees; prema-of love of Godhead; madhu-by
>|the honey; unmadan-maddened; natva-offering obeisances;
>|akhilan-to all of them; tesu-out of them; mukhyah-the chief;
>| likhyante-being described; katicit-a few of them; maya-by
>|me.
14|TRANSLATION
15|After offering my obeisances unto all of the devotees of
>|Sri Nityananda Prabhu, who are like bumblebees collecting
>|honey from His lotus feet, I shall try to describe those
>|who are the most prominent.
16|Adi 11.2
17|TEXT 2
18|TEXT
19|jaya jaya mahaprabhu sri-krsna-caitanya
20|tanhara caranasrita yei, sei dhanya
21|SYNONYMS
22|jaya jaya-all glories; mahaprabhu-unto Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; sri-krsna-caitanya-known as Krsna Caitanya;
>|tanhara carana-asrita-all who have taken shelter at His
>|lotus feet; yei-anyone; sei-he is; dhanya-glorious.
23|TRANSLATION
24|All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu! Anyone who has
>|taken shelter at His lotus feet is glorious.
25|Adi 11.3
26|TEXT 3
27|TEXT
28|jaya jaya sri-advaita, jaya nityananda
29|jaya jaya mahaprabhura sarva-bhakta-vrnda
30|SYNONYMS
31|jaya jaya-all glories; sri-advaita-unto Sri Advaita Acarya;
>|jaya-all glories; nityananda-unto Lord Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu; jaya jaya-all glories; mahaprabhura-of Lord Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sarva-all; bhakta-vrnda-devotees.
32|TRANSLATION
33|All glories to Sri Advaita Prabhu, Nityananda Prabhu and
>|all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu!
34|Adi 11.4
35|TEXT 4
36|TEXT
37|tasya sri-krsna-caitanya-
38|sat-premamara-sakhinah
39|urdhva-skandhavadhutendoh
40|sakha-rupan ganan numah
41|SYNONYMS
42|tasya-His; sri-krsna-caitanya-Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; sat-prema-of eternal love of Godhead; amara-
>|indestructible; sakhinah-of the tree; urdhva-very high;
>|skandha-branch; avadhuta-indoh-of Sri Nityananda; sakha-
>|rupan-in the form of different branches; ganan-to the
>|devotees; numah-I offer my respects.
43|TRANSLATION
44|Sri Nityananda Prabhu is the topmost branch of the
>|indestructible tree of eternal love of Godhead, Sri Krsna
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I offer my respectful obeisances to
>|all the subbranches of that topmost branch.
45|Adi 11.5
46|TEXT 5
47|TEXT
48|sri-nityananda-vrksera skandha gurutara
49|tahate janmila sakha-prasakha vistara
50|SYNONYMS
51|sri-nityananda-vrksera-of the tree known as Sri Nityananda;
>|skandha-main branch; gurutara-extremely heavy; tahate-from
>|that branch; janmila-grew; sakha-branches; prasakha-
>|subbranches; vistara-expansively.
52|TRANSLATION
53|Sri Nityananda Prabhu is an extremely heavy branch of the
>|Sri Caitanya tree. From that branch grow many branches and
>|subbranches.
54|Adi 11.6
55|TEXT 6
56|TEXT
57|malakarera iccha jale bade sakha-gana
58|prema-phula-phale bhari' chaila bhuvana
59|SYNONYMS
60|mala-karera-of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; iccha-jale-by the
>|water of His wish; bade-increase; sakha-gana-the branches;
>|prema-love of Godhead; phula-phale-with flowers and fruits;
>|bhari'-filling; chaila-covered; bhuvana-the whole world.
61|TRANSLATION
62|Watered by the desire of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, these
>|branches and subbranches have grown unlimitedly and covered
>|the entire world with fruits and flowers.
63|Adi 11.7
64|TEXT 7
65|TEXT
66|asankhya ananta gana ke karu ganana
67|apana sodhite kahi mukhya mukhya jana
68|SYNONYMS
69|asankhya-innumerable; ananta-unlimited; gana-devotees; ke-
>|who; karu-can; ganana-count; apana-the self; sodhite-to
>|purify; kahi-I speak; mukhya mukhya-only the chief; jana-
>|persons.
70|TRANSLATION
71|These branches and subbranches of devotees are innumerable
>|and unlimited. Who could count them? For my personal
>|purification I shall try to enumerate only the most
>|prominent among them.
72|PURPORT
73|One should not write books or essays on transcendental
>|subject matter for material name, fame or profit.
>|Transcendental literature must be written under the
>|direction of a superior authority because it is not meant
>|for material purposes. If one tries to write under superior
>|authority, he becomes purified. All Krsna conscious
>|activities should be undertaken for personal purification (
>|apana sodhite), not for material gain.
74|Adi 11.8
75|TEXT 8
76|TEXT
77|sri-virabhadra gosani-skandha-mahasakha
78|tanra upasakha yata, asankhya tara lekha
79|SYNONYMS
80|sri-virabhadra gosani-of the name Sri Virabhadra Gosani;
>|skandha-of the trunk; maha-sakha-the biggest branch; tanra-
>|his; upasakha-subbranches; yata-all; asankhya-innumerable;
>|tara-of that; lekha-the description.
81|TRANSLATION
82|After Nityananda Prabhu, the greatest branch is Virabhadra
>|Gosani, who also has innumerable branches and subbranches.
>|It is not possible to describe them all.
83|PURPORT
84|Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura describes
>|Virabhadra Gosani as the direct son of Srila
>|Nityananda Prabhu and a disciple of Jahnava-devi. His real
>|mother was Vasudha. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse
>|67 , he is mentioned as an incarnation of Ksirodakasayi
>|Visnu. Therefore Virabhadra Gosani is nondifferent from Sri
>|Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In a village of the name
>|Jhamatapura, in the district of Hugali, Virabhadra Gosani
>|had a disciple named Yadunathacarya, who had two daughters-
>|a real daughter named Srimati and a foster daughter named
>|Narayani. Both these daughters married, and they are
>|mentioned in Bhakti-ratnakara (Thirteenth Wave).
>|Virabhadra Gosani had three disciples who are celebrated as
>|his sons-Gopijana-vallabha, Ramakrsna and Ramacandra. The
>|youngest, Ramacandra, belonged to the Sandilya dynasty and
>|had the surname Vatavyala. He established his family at
>|Khadadaha, and its members are known as the gosvamis of
>|Khadadaha. The eldest disciple, Gopijana-vallabha, was a
>|resident of a village known as Lata, near the Manakara
>|railway station in the district of Burdwan. The second,
>|Ramakrsna, lived near Maladaha, in a village named
>|Gayesapura. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura notes
>|that since these three disciples belonged to different
>|gotras, or dynasties, and also had different surnames and
>|lived in different places, it is not possible to accept
>|them as real sons of Virabhadra Gosani. Ramacandra had four
>|sons, of whom the eldest was Radhamadhava, whose third son
>|was named Yadavendra. Yadavendra's son was Nandakisora, his
>|son was Nidhikrsna, his son was Caitanyacanda, his son was
>|Krsnamohana, his son was Jaganmohana, his son was
>|Vrajanatha, and his son was Syamalala Gosvami. This is the
>|genealogical table given by Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
>|Thakura for the descendants of Virabhadra Gosani.
85|Adi 11.9
86|TEXT 9
87|TEXT
88|isvara ha-iya kahaya maha-bhagavata
89|veda-dharmatita hana veda-dharme rata
90|SYNONYMS
91|isvara-the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ha-iya-being;
>|kahaya-calls Himself; maha-bhagavata-great devotee; veda-
>|dharma-the principles of Vedic religion; atita-
>|transcendental; hana-being; veda-dharme-in the Vedic system;
>| rata-engaged.
92|TRANSLATION
93|Although Virabhadra Gosani was the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, He presented Himself as a great devotee. And
>|although the Supreme Godhead is transcendental to all Vedic
>|injunctions, He strictly followed the Vedic rituals.
94|Adi 11.10
95|TEXT 10
96|TEXT
97|antare isvara-cesta, bahire nirdambha
98|caitanya-bhakti-mandape tenho mula-stambha
99|SYNONYMS
100|antare-within Himself; isvara-cesta-the activities of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead; bahire-externally;
>|nirdambha-without pride; caitanya-bhakti-mandape-in the
>|devotional hall of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tenho-He is;
>|mula-stambha-the main pillar.
101|TRANSLATION
102|He is the main pillar in the hall of devotional service
>|erected by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He knew within Himself
>|that He acted as the Supreme Lord Visnu, but externally He
>|was prideless.
103|Adi 11.11
104|TEXT 11
105|TEXT
106|adyapi yanhara krpa-mahima ha-ite
107|caitanya-nityananda gaya sakala jagate
108|SYNONYMS
109|adyapi-until today; yanhara-whose; krpa-mercy; mahima-
>|glorious; ha-ite-from; caitanya-nityananda-Sri Caitanya-
>|Nityananda; gaya-sing; sakala-all; jagate-in the world.
110|TRANSLATION
111|It is by the glorious mercy of Sri Virabhadra Gosani that
>|people all over the world now have the chance to chant the
>|names of Caitanya and Nityananda.
112|Adi 11.12
113|TEXT 12
114|TEXT
115|sei virabhadra-gosanira la-inu sarana
116|yanhara prasade haya abhista-purana
117|SYNONYMS
118|sei-that; virabhadra-gosanira-of Sri Virabhadra Gosani; la-
>|inu-I take; sarana-shelter; yanhara-whose; prasade-by mercy;
>| haya-it becomes so; abhista-purana-fulfillment of desire.
119|TRANSLATION
120|I therefore take shelter of the lotus feet of Virabhadra
>|Gosani so that by His mercy my great desire to write Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta will be properly guided.
121|Adi 11.13
122|TEXT 13
123|TEXT
124|sri-ramadasa ara, gadadhara dasa
125|caitanya-gosanira bhakta rahe tanra pasa
126|SYNONYMS
127|sri-ramadasa-of the name Sri Ramadasa; ara-and; gadadhara
>|dasa- of the name Gadadhara dasa; caitanya-gosanira-of Lord
>|Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; bhakta-devotees; rahe-stay; tanra
>|pasa-with Him.
128|TRANSLATION
129|Two devotees of Lord Caitanya, named Sri Ramadasa and
>|Gadadhara dasa , always lived with Sri Virabhadra Gosani.
130|PURPORT
131|Sri Ramadasa, later known as Abhirama Thakura, was one of
>|the twelve gopalas, cowherd boyfriends, of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu. The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 126 ,
>| states that Sri Ramadasa was formerly Sridama. In
>|Bhakti-ratnakara (Fourth Wave), there is a description of
>|Srila Abhirama Thakura. By the order of Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu, Abhirama Thakura became a great acarya and preacher
>|of the Caitanya cult of devotional service. He was a very
>|influential personality, and nondevotees were very
>|afraid of him. Empowered by Sri Nityananda Prabhu, he was
>|always in ecstasy and was extremely kind to all fallen
>|souls. It is said that if he offered obeisances to any
>|stone other than a salagrama-sila, it would immediately
>|fracture.
132|
>|Ten miles southwest of the Canpadanga railway
>|station on the narrow-gauge railway line from Howrah, in
>|Calcutta, to Amta, a village in the Hugali district, is a
>|small town named Khanakula-krsnanagara, where the temple of
>| Abhirama Thakura is situated. During the
>|rainy season, when this area is inundated with water,
>|people must go there by another line, which is now called
>|the southeastern Railway. On this line there is a
>|station named Kolaghata, from which one has to go by
>|steamer to Ranicaka. Seven and a half miles north of
>|Ranicaka is Khanakula. The temple of Abhirama Thakura
>|is situated in Krsnanagara, which is near the
>|kula (bank) of the Khana (Dvarakesvara River); therefore
>|this place is celebrated as Khanakula-krsnanagara. Outside
>|of the temple is a bakula tree. This place is known as
>|Siddha-bakula-kunja. It is said that when Abhirama Thakura
>|came there, he sat down under this tree. In Khanakula-
>|krsnanagara there is a big fair held every year in the
>|month of Caitra (March-April ) on the Krsna-saptami, the
>|seventh day of the dark moon. Many hundreds and thousands
>|of people gather for this festival. The temple of
>|Abhirama Thakura has a very old history. The
>|Deity in the temple is known as Gopinatha. There are many
>|sevaita families living near the temple. It is said that
>|Abhirama Thakura had a whip and that whoever he touched
>|with it would immediately become an elevated devotee of
>|Krsna. Among his many disciples, Sriman Srinivasa Acarya
>|was the most famous and the most dear, but it is doubtful
>|that he was his initiated disciple.
133|Adi 11.14-15
134|TEXTS 14-15
135|TEXT
136|nityanande ajna dila yabe gaude yaite
137|mahaprabhu ei dui dila tanra sathe
138|ataeva dui-gane dunhara ganana
139|madhava-vasudeva ghoserao ei vivarana
140|SYNONYMS
141|nityanande-unto Lord Nityananda; ajna-order; dila-gave;
>|yabe-when; gaude-to Bengal; yaite-to go; mahaprabhu-Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ei dui-these two; dila-gave; tanra
>|sathe-with Him; ataeva-therefore; dui-gane-in both the
>|parties; dunhara-two of them; ganana-are counted; madhava-
>|of the name Madhava; vasudeva- of the name Vasudeva;
>|ghoserao-of the surname Ghosa; ei-this; vivarana-
>|description.
142|TRANSLATION
143|When Nityananda Prabhu was ordered to go to Bengal to
>|preach, these two devotees [Sri Ramadasa and Gadadhara dasa]
>| were ordered to go with Him. Thus they are sometimes
>|counted among the devotees of Lord Caitanya and sometimes
>|among the devotees of Lord Nityananda. Similarly, Madhava
>|and Vasudeva Ghosa belonged to both groups of
>|devotees simultaneously.
144|PURPORT
145|
>|There is a place named Danihata, near the
>|Agradvipa railway station and Patuli in the district of
>|Burdwan, where the Deity of Sri Gopinathaji is still
>|situated. This Deity accepted Govinda Ghosa as His father.
>|Even until today, the Deity performs the sraddha ceremony
>|on the anniversary of the death of Govinda Ghosa. The
>|temple of this Deity is managed by the raja-vamsa family of
>|Krsnanagara, whose members are descendants of Raja
>|Krsnacandra. Every year in the month of Vaisakha, when
>|there is a baradola ceremony, this Gopinatha Deity is taken
>|to Krsnanagara. The ceremony is performed with eleven other
>|Deities, and then Sri Gopinathaji is brought back to the
>|temple in Agradvipa.
146|Adi 11.16
147|TEXT 16
148|TEXT
149|ramadasa-mukhya-sakha, sakhya-prema-rasi
150|solasangera kastha yei tuli' kaila vamsi
151|SYNONYMS
152|rama-dasa-of the name Ramadasa; mukhya-sakha-chief branch;
>|sakhya-prema-rasi-full of fraternal love; solasa-angera-of
>|sixteen knots; kastha-wood; yei-that; tuli'-raising; kaila-
>|made; vamsi-flute.
153|TRANSLATION
154|Ramadasa, one of the chief branches, was full of fraternal
>|love of Godhead. He made a flute from a stick with sixteen
>|knots.
155|Adi 11.17
156|TEXT 17
157|TEXT
158|gadadhara dasa gopibhave purnananda
159|yanra ghare danakeli kaila nityananda
160|SYNONYMS
161|gadadhara dasa-of the name Gadadhara dasa; gopi-bhave-in
>|the ecstasy of the gopis; purna-ananda-fully in
>|transcendental bliss; yanra ghare-in whose house; dana-keli-
>|performance of danakeli-lila; kaila-did; nityananda-Lord
>|Nityananda Prabhu.
162|TRANSLATION
163|Srila Gadadhara dasa was always fully absorbed in ecstasy
>|as a gopi. In his house Lord Nityananda enacted the drama
>|Danakeli .
164|Adi 11.18
165|TEXT 18
166|TEXT
167|sri-madhava ghosa-mukhya kirtaniya-gane
168|nityananda-prabhu nrtya kare yanra gane
169|SYNONYMS
170|sri-madhava ghosa-of the name Sri Madhava Ghosa; mukhya-
>|chief; kirtaniya-gane-amongst the performers of sankirtana;
>|nityananda-prabhu- of the name Nityananda Prabhu; nrtya-
>|dance; kare-does; yanra-whose; gane-in song.
171|TRANSLATION
172|Sri Madhava Ghosa was a principal performer of kirtana.
>|While he sang, Nityananda Prabhu danced.
173|Adi 11.19
174|TEXT 19
175|TEXT
176|vasudeva gite kare prabhura varnane
177|kastha-pasana drave yahara sravane
178|SYNONYMS
179|vasudeva-of the name Vasudeva; gite-while singing; kare-
>|does; prabhura-of Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; varnane-in description; kastha-wood; pasana-
>|stone; drave-melt; yahara-whose; sravane-by hearing.
180|TRANSLATION
181|When Vasudeva Ghosa performed kirtana, describing Lord
>|Caitanya and Nityananda , even
>|wood and stone would melt upon hearing it.
182|Adi 11.20
183|TEXT 20
184|TEXT
185|murari-caitanya-dasera alaukika lila
186|vyaghra-gale cada mare, sarpa-sane khela
187|SYNONYMS
188|murari-of the name Murari; caitanya-dasera-of the servant
>|of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; alaukika-uncommon; lila-
>|pastimes; vyaghra-tiger; gale-on the cheek; cada mare-slaps;
>| sarpa-a snake; sane-with; khela-playing.
189|TRANSLATION
190|There were many extraordinary activities performed by
>|Murari, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
>|Sometimes in his ecstasy he would slap the cheek of a tiger,
>| and sometimes he would play with a venomous snake.
191|PURPORT
192|
>|Murari Caitanya dasa was born in the village of
>|Sar-vrndavana-pura, which is situated about two miles from
>|the Galasi station on the Burdwan line. When Murari
>|Caitanya dasa came to Navadvipa, he settled in the village
>|of Modadruma, or Mamagachi-grama. At that time he became
>|known as Sarnga or Saranga Murari Caitanya dasa. The
>|descendants of his family still reside in Sarer Pata. In
>|the Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya- lila, Chapter Five, there
>|is the following statement: "Murari Caitanya dasa had no
>|material bodily features, for he was completely spiritual.
>|Thus he would sometimes chase after tigers in the jungle
>|and treat them just like cats and dogs. He would slap the
>|cheek of a tiger and take a venomous snake on his lap. He
>|had no fear for his external body, of which he was
>|completely forgetful. He could spend all twenty-four hours
>|of the day chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra or speaking
>|about Lord Caitanya and Nityananda. Sometimes he would
>|remain submerged in water for two or three days, but he
>|would feel no bodily inconvenience. Thus he behaved almost
>|like stone or wood, but he always used his energy in
>|chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. No one can describe
>|his specific characteristics, but it is understood that
>|wherever Murari Caitanya dasa passed, whoever was present
>|would be enlightened in Krsna consciousness simply by the
>|atmosphere he created. "
193|Adi 11.21
194|TEXT 21
195|TEXT
196|nityanandera gana yata-saba vraja-sakha
197|srnga-vetra-gopavesa, sire sikhi-pakha
198|SYNONYMS
199|nityanandera-of Lord Nityananda Prabhu; gana-followers;
>|yata-all; saba-all; vraja-sakha-residents of Vrndavana;
>|srnga-horn; vetra-cane stick; gopa-vesa-dressed like a
>|cowherd boy; sire-on the head; sikhi-pakha-the plume of a
>|peacock.
200|TRANSLATION
201|All the associates of Lord Nityananda were formerly cowherd
>|boys in Vrajabhumi. Their symbolic representations were the
>|horns and sticks they carried, their cowherd dress and the
>|peacock plumes on their heads.
202|PURPORT
203|Jahnava-mata is also within the list of Lord Nityananda's
>|followers. She is described in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika,
>|verse 66 , as Ananga-manjari of Vrndavana. All the
>|devotees who are followers of Jahnava-mata are counted
>|within the list of Sri Nityananda Prabhu's devotees.
204|Adi 11.22
205|TEXT 22
206|TEXT
207|raghunatha vaidya upadhyaya mahasaya
208|yanhara darsane krsna-prema-bhakti haya
209|SYNONYMS
210|raghunatha vaidya-the physician Raghunatha; upadhyaya
>|mahasaya-a great personality with the title Upadhyaya;
>|yanhara-whose; darsane-by visiting; krsna-prema-love of
>|Krsna; bhakti-devotional service; haya-awakened.
211|TRANSLATION
212|The physician Raghunatha, also known as Upadhyaya, was so
>|great a devotee that simply by seeing him one would awaken
>|his dormant love of Godhead.
213|Adi 11.23
214|TEXT 23
215|TEXT
216|sundarananda-nityanandera sakha, bhrtya marma
217|yanra sange nityananda kare vraja-narma
218|SYNONYMS
219|sundarananda-of the name Sundarananda; nityanandera sakha-a
>|branch of Nityananda Prabhu; bhrtya marma-very intimate
>|servant; yanra sange-with whom; nityananda-Lord Nityananda;
>|kare-performs; vraja-narma-activities of Vrndavana.
220|TRANSLATION
221|Sundarananda, another branch of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, was
>|Lord Nityananda's most intimate servant. Lord Nityananda
>|Prabhu perceived the life of Vrajabhumi in his company.
222|PURPORT
223|
>|In the Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya- lila,
>|Chapter Fives, it is stated that Sundarananda was an ocean
>|of love of Godhead and the chief associate of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika he
>|is stated to have been Sudama in krsna-lila. Thus he was
>|one of the twelve cowherd boys who came down with Balarama
>|when He descended as Sri Nityananda Prabhu. The holy place
>|where Sundarananda lived is situated in the village known
>|as Mahesapura, which is about fourteen miles east of the
>|Majadiya railway station of the Eastern Railway from
>|Calcutta to Burdwan. This place is within the district of
>|Jeshore, which is now in Bangladesh . Among the relics of
>|this village, only the old residential house of
>|Sundarananda still exists. At the end of the village
>|resides a baula (pseudo -Vaisnava ), and all the buildings,
>|both the temples and the house, appear to be newly
>|constructed. In Mahesapura there are Deities of Sri
>|Radhavallabha and Sri Sri Radharamana. Near the temple is a
>|small river of the name Vetravati.
224|Sundarananda Prabhu was a naisthika-brahmacari: he never
>|married in his life. Therefore he had no direct descendants
>|except his disciples, but the descendants of his family
>|still reside in the village known as Mangaladihi in the
>|district of Birbhum. In that same village is a temple of
>|Balarama, and the Deity there is regularly worshiped. The
>|original Deity of Mahesapura, Radhavallabha, was taken by
>|the Saidabad Gosvamis of Berhampur, and since the present
>|Deities were installed, a zamindar family of Mahesapura has
>|looked after Their worship. On the full moon day of the
>|month of Magha (January-February), the anniversary of
>|Sundarananda's disappearance is regularly celebrated, and
>|people from the neighboring areas gather together to
>|observe this festival.
225|Adi 11.24
226|TEXT 24
227|TEXT
228|kamalakara pippalai-alaukika rita
229|alaukika prema tanra bhuvane vidita
230|SYNONYMS
231|kamalakara pippalai-of the name Kamalakara Pippalai;
>|alaukika-uncommon; rita-behavior or pastime; alaukika-
>|uncommon; prema-love of Godhead; tanra-his; bhuvane-in the
>|world; vidita-celebrated.
232|TRANSLATION
233|Kamalakara Pippalai is said to have been the third gopala.
>|His behavior and love of Godhead were uncommon, and thus he
>|is celebrated all over the world.
234|PURPORT
235|
>|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 128 ,
>|Kamalakara Pippalai is described as the third gopala. His
>|former name was Mahabala. The Jagannatha Deity at Mahesa in
>|Sri Ramapura was installed by Kamalakara Pippalai. This
>|village of Mahesa is situated about two and a half miles
>|from the Sri Ramapura railway station. The genealogy of the
>|family of Kamalakara Pippalai is given as follows.
>|Kamalakara Pippalai had a son named Caturbhuja, who had two
>|sons named Narayana and Jagannatha. Narayana had one son
>|named Jagadananda, and his son's name was Rajivalocana.
>|During the time of Rajivalocana, there was a scarcity of
>|finances for the worship of the Jagannatha Deity, and it is
>|said that the Nawab of Dacca, whose name was Shah Suja,
>|donated 1,185 bighas of land in the
>|Bengali year 1060 (A.D. 1653 ). The land being the
>|possession of Jagannatha, the village was named Jagannatha-
>|pura. It is said that when Kamalakara Pippalai left home
>|his younger brother Nidhipati Pippalai searched for him and
>|in due course of time found him in the village of Mahesa.
>|Nidhipati Pippalai tried his best to bring his elder
>|brother home, but he would not return. Under these
>|circumstances, Nidhipati Pippalai, with all his family
>|members, came to Mahesa to reside. The members of this
>|family still reside in the vicinity of the Mahesa village.
>|Their family name is Adhikari, and they are a brahmana
>|family.
236|The history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesa is as
>|follows. One devotee of the name Dhruvananda went to see
>|Lord Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra at Jagannatha Puri,
>|wanting to offer food to Jagannathaji that he had cooked
>|with his own hands. This being his desire, one night
>|Jagannathaji appeared to him in a dream and asked him to go
>|to Mahesa on the bank of the Ganges and there start worship
>|of Him in a temple. Thus Dhruvananda went to Mahesa, where
>|he saw the three deities-Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra-
>|floating in the Ganges. He picked up all those deities and
>|installed them in a small cottage, and with great
>|satisfaction he executed the worship of Lord Jagannatha.
>|When he became old, he was very anxious to hand over the
>|worship to the charge of someone reliable, and in a dream
>|he got permission from Jagannatha Prabhu to hand it over to
>|a person whom he would meet the next morning. The next
>|morning he met Kamalakara Pippalai, who was formerly an
>|inhabitant of the village Khalijuli in the Sundaravana
>|forest area of Bengal and was a pure Vaisnava, a great
>|devotee of Lord Jagannatha; thus he immediately gave him
>|charge of the worship. In this way, Kamalakara Pippalai
>|became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his
>|family members have been designated as Adhikari, which
>|means "one who is empowered to worship the Lord. " These
>|Adhikaris belong to a respectable brahmana family. Five
>|types of upper-class brahmanas are recognized by the
>|surname Pippalai.
237|Adi 11.25
238|TEXT 25
239|TEXT
240|suryadasa sarakhela, tanra bhai krsnadasa
241|nityanande drdha visvasa, premera nivasa
242|SYNONYMS
243|suryadasa sarakhela-of the name Suryadasa Sarakhela; tanra
>|bhai-his brother; krsnadasa- of the name Krsnadasa;
>|nityanande-unto Lord Nityananda; drdha visvasa-firm faith;
>|premera nivasa-the reservoir of all love of Godhead.
244|TRANSLATION
245|Suryadasa Sarakhela and his younger brother Krsnadasa
>|Sarakhela both possessed firm faith in Nityananda Prabhu.
>|They were a reservoir of love of Godhead.
246|PURPORT
247|In the Bhakti-ratnakara (Twelfth Wave), it is stated that a
>|few miles from Navadvipa is a place called Saligrama that
>|was the residence of Suryadasa Sarakhela. He was employed
>|as a secretary in the Muslim government of that time, and
>|thus he amassed a good fortune. Suryadasa had four brothers,
>| all of whom were pure Vaisnavas. Vasudha and Jahnava were
>|two daughters of Suryadasa Sarakhela.
248|Adi 11.26
249|TEXT 26
250|TEXT
251|gauridasa pandita yanra premoddanda-bhakti
252|krsna-prema dite, nite, dhare mahasakti
253|SYNONYMS
254|gauridasa pandita-of the name Gauridasa Pandita; yanra-
>|whose; prema-uddanda-bhakti-the most elevated in love of
>|Godhead and devotional service; krsna-prema-love of Krsna;
>|dite-to deliver; nite-and to receive; dhare-empowered;
>|mahasakti-great potency.
255|TRANSLATION
256|Gauridasa Pandita, the emblem of the most elevated
>|devotional service in love of Godhead, had the greatest
>|potency to receive and deliver such love.
257|PURPORT
258|
>|It is said that Gauridasa Pandita was always
>|patronized by King Krsnadasa, the son of Harihoda.
>|Gauridasa Pandita lived in the village of Saligrama, which
>|is situated a few miles from the railway station Mudagacha,
>|and later he came to reside in Ambika-kalana. It is stated
>|in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 128 , that formerly
>|he was Subala, one of the cowherd boyfriends of Krsna and
>|Balarama in Vrndavana. Gauridasa Pandita was the younger
>|brother of Suryadasa Sarakhela, and with the permission of
>|his elder brother he shifted his residence to the bank of
>|the Ganges, living there in the town known as Ambika-kalana.
>| Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita
>|are as follows: (1) Sri Nrsimha-caitanya, (2) Krsnadasa, (3)
>| Visnudasa, (4) Bada Balarama dasa, (5) Govinda, (6)
>|Raghunatha, (7) Badu Gangadasa, (8) Auliya Gangarama, (9)
>|Yadavacarya, (10) Hrdaya-caitanya, (11) Canda Haladara, (12)
>| Mahesa Pandita, (13) Mukuta Raya, (14) Bhatuya Gangarama, (
>|15) Auliya Caitanya, (16) Kaliya Krsnadasa, (17) Patuya
>|Gopala, (18) Bada Jagannatha, (19) Nityananda, (20) Bhavi, (
>|21) Jagadisa, (22) Raiya Krsnadasa and ( 22 12) Annapurna.
>| The eldest son of Gauridasa Pandita was known as big
>|Balarama, and the youngest was known as Raghunatha. The
>|sons of Raghunatha were Mahesa Pandita and Govinda.
>|Gauridasa Pandita's daughter was known as Annapurna.
259|The village Ambika-kalana, which is situated just across
>|the river Ganges from Santipura, is two miles east of the
>|Kalana-korta railway station, on the Eastern Railway. In
>|Ambika-kalana there is a temple constructed by the zamindar
>|of Burdwan. In front of the temple there is a big tamarind
>|tree, and it is said that Gauridasa Pandita and Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu met underneath this tree. The place
>|where the temple is situated is known as Ambika, and
>|because it is in the area of Kalana, the village is known
>|as Ambika-kalana. It is said that a copy of the Bhagavad-
>|gita written by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu still exists in
>|this temple.
260|Adi 11.27
261|TEXT 27
262|TEXT
263|nityanande samarpila jati-kula-panti
264|sri-caitanya-nityanande kari pranapati
265|SYNONYMS
266|nityanande-to Lord Nityananda; samarpila-he offered; jati-
>|caste distinction; kula-family; panti-fellowship; sri-
>|caitanya-Lord Caitanya; nityanande-in Lord Nityananda; kari-
>|making; prana-pati-the Lords of his life.
267|TRANSLATION
268|Making Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda the Lords of his
>|life, Gauridasa Pandita sacrificed everything for the
>|service of Lord Nityananda, even the fellowship of his own
>|family.
269|Adi 11.28
270|TEXT 28
271|TEXT
272|nityananda prabhura priya-pandita purandara
273|premarnava-madhye phire yaichana mandara
274|SYNONYMS
275|nityananda-Lord Nityananda Prabhu; prabhura-of the Lord;
>|priya-very dear; pandita purandara-of the name Pandita
>|Purandara; prema-arnava-madhye-in the ocean of love of
>|Godhead; phire-moved; yaichana-exactly like; mandara-the
>|Mandara Hill.
276|TRANSLATION
277|The thirteenth important devotee of Sri Nityananda Prabhu
>|was Pandita Purandara, who moved in the ocean of love of
>|Godhead just like the Mandara Hill.
278|PURPORT
279|Pandita Purandara met Sri Nityananda Prabhu at Khadadaha.
>|When Nityananda Prabhu visited this village, He danced very
>|uncommonly, and His dancing captivated Purandara Pandita.
>|The pandita was in the top of a tree, and upon seeing the
>|dancing of Nityananda he jumped down on the ground and
>|proclaimed himself to be Angada, one of the devotees in the
>|camp of Hanuman during the pastimes of Lord Ramacandra.
280|Adi 11.29
281|TEXT 29
282|TEXT
283|paramesvara-dasa-nityanandaika-sarana
284|krsna-bhakti paya, tanre ye kare smarana
285|SYNONYMS
286|paramesvara-dasa-of the name Paramesvara dasa; nityananda-
>|eka-sarana-completely surrendered to the lotus feet of
>|Nityananda; krsna-bhakti paya-gets love of Krsna; tanre-him;
>| ye-anyone; kare-does; smarana-remembering.
287|TRANSLATION
288|Paramesvara dasa, said to be the fifth gopala of krsna-lila,
>| completely surrendered to the lotus feet of Nityananda.
>|Anyone who remembers his name, Paramesvara dasa, will get
>|love of Krsna very easily.
289|PURPORT
290|
>|The Caitanya-bhagavata states that Paramesvara
>|dasa, known sometimes as Paramesvari dasa, was the life and
>|soul of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. The body of Paramesvara dasa
>|was the place of Lord Nityananda's pastimes. Paramesvara
>|dasa, who lived for some time at Khadadaha village, was
>|always filled with the ecstasy of a cowherd boy. Formerly
>|he was Arjuna, a friend of Krsna and Balarama. He was the
>|fifth among the twelve gopalas. He accompanied Srimati
>|Jahnava-devi when she performed the festival at Kheturi. It
>|is stated in the Bhakti-ratnakara that by the order of
>|Srimati Jahnava-mata, he installed Radha-Gopinatha in the
>|temple at Atapura in the district of Hugali. The Atapura
>|station is on the narrow-gauge railway line between Howrah
>|and Amata. Another temple in Atapura, established by the
>|Mitra family, is known as the Radha-Govinda temple. In
>|front of the temple, in a very attractive place among two
>|bakula trees and a kadamba tree, is the tomb of Paramesvari
>|Thakura, and above it is an altar with a tulasi bush. It is
>|said that only one flower a year comes out of the kadamba
>|tree. It is offered to the Deity.
291|Paramesvari Thakura belonged, it is said, to a vaidya
>|family. A descendant of his brother's is at present a
>|worshiper in the temple. Some of their family members still
>|reside in the district of Hugali, near the post office of
>|Canditala. The descendants of Paramesvari Thakura took many
>|disciples from brahmana families, but as these descendants
>|gradually took to the profession of physicians, persons
>|from brahmana families ceased becoming their disciples. The
>|family titles of Paramesvari's descendants are Adhikari and
>|Gupta. Unfortunately, his family members do not worship the
>|Deity directly; they have engaged paid brahmanas to worship
>|the Deity. In the temple, Baladeva and Sri Sri Radha-
>|Gopinatha are together on the throne. It is supposed that
>|the Deity of Baladeva was installed later because according
>|to transcendental mellow, Baladeva, Krsna and Radha cannot
>|stay on the same throne. On the full moon day of Vaisakha (
>|April-May), the disappearance festival of Paramesvari
>|Thakura is observed in this temple.
292|Adi 11.30
293|TEXT 30
294|TEXT
295|jagadisa pandita haya jagat-pavana
296|krsna-premamrta varse, yena varsa ghana
297|SYNONYMS
298|jagadisa pandita-of the name Jagadisa Pandita; haya-becomes;
>| jagat-pavana-the deliverer of the world; krsna-prema-amrta
>|varse-he always pours torrents of devotional service; yena-
>|like; varsa-rainfall; ghana-heavy.
299|TRANSLATION
300|Jagadisa Pandita, the fifteenth branch of Lord Nityananda's
>|followers, was the deliverer of the entire world.
>|Devotional love of Krsna showered from him like torrents of
>|rain.
301|PURPORT
302|
>|Descriptions of Jagadisa Pandita are available
>|from Caitanya-bhagavata, Adi- lila, Chapter Six, and
>|Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Chapter Fourteen. He
>|belonged to the village of Yasada-grama, in the district of
>|Nadia near the Cakadaha railway station. His father, the
>|son of Bhatta Narayana, was named Kamalaksa. Both his
>|father and mother were great devotees of Lord Visnu, and
>|after their death, Jagadisa, with his wife Duhkhini and
>|brother Mahesa, left his birthplace and came to Sri Mayapur
>|to live in the company of Jagannatha Misra and other
>|Vaisnavas. Lord Caitanya asked Jagadisa to go to Jagannatha
>|Puri to preach the hari-nama-sankirtana movement. After
>|returning from Jagannatha Puri, on the order of Lord
>|Jagannatha he established Deities of Jagannatha in the
>|village of Yasada-grama. It is said that when Jagadisa
>|Pandita brought the Deity of Jagannatha to Yasada-grama, he
>|tied the heavy Deity to a stick and thus brought Him to the
>|village. The priests of the temple still show the stick
>|used by Jagadisa Pandita to carry the Jagannatha Deity.
303|Adi 11.31
304|TEXT 31
305|TEXT
306|nityananda-priyabhrtya pandita dhananjaya
307|atyanta virakta, sada krsna-premamaya
308|SYNONYMS
309|nityananda-priya-bhrtya-another dear servant of Nityananda
>|Prabhu; pandita dhananjaya-of the name Pandita Dhananjaya;
>|atyanta-very much; virakta-renounced; sada-always; krsna-
>|prema-maya-merged in love of Krsna.
310|TRANSLATION
311|The sixteenth dear servant of Nityananda Prabhu was
>|Dhananjaya Pandita. He was very much renounced and always
>|merged in love of Krsna.
312|PURPORT
313|
>|Pandita Dhananjaya was a resident of the
>|village in Katwa named Sitala. He was one of the twelve
>|gopalas. His former name, according to Gaura-ganoddesa-
>|dipika , verse 127 , was Vasudama. Sitala-grama is
>|situated near the Mangalakota police station and Kaicara
>|post office in the district of Burdwan. On the narrow
>|railway from Burdwan to Katwa is a railway station about
>|nine miles from Kutwa known as Kaicara. One has to go about
>|a mile northeast of this station to reach Sitala. The
>|temple was a thatched house with walls made of dirt. Some
>|time ago, the Zamindars of Bajaravana Kabasi, the Mulliks,
>|constructed a big house for the purpose of a temple, but
>|for the last sixty-five years the temple has been broken
>|down and abandoned. The foundation of the old temple is
>|still visible. There is a tulasi pillar near the temple,
>|and every year during the month of January
>| the disappearance day of Dhananjaya is
>|observed. It is said that for some time Pandita Dhananjaya
>|was in a sankirtana party under the direction of Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and then he went to Vrndavana. Before
>|going to Vrndavana, he lived for some time in a village
>|named Sancadapancada, which is six miles south of the
>|Memari railway station. Sometimes this village is also
>|known as "the place of Dhananjaya " (Dhananjayera Pata).
>|After some time, he left the responsibility for worship
>|with a disciple and went back to Vrndavana. After returning
>|from Vrndavana to Sitala-grama, he established a Deity of
>|Gaurasundara in the temple. The descendants of Pandita
>|Dhananjaya still live in Sitala-grama and look after the
>|temple worship.
314|Adi 11.32
315|TEXT 32
316|TEXT
317|mahesa pandita-vrajera udara gopala
318|dhakka-vadye nrtya kare preme matoyala
319|SYNONYMS
320|mahesa pandita-of the name Mahesa Pandita; vrajera-of
>|Vrndavana; udara-very liberal; gopala-cowherd boy; dhakka-
>|vadye-with the beating of a kettledrum; nrtya kare-used to
>|dance; preme-in love; matoyala-as if a madman.
321|TRANSLATION
322|Mahesa Pandita, the seventh of the twelve gopalas, was very
>|liberal. In great love of Krsna he danced to the beating of
>|a kettledrum like a madman.
323|PURPORT
324|
>|The village of Mahesa Pandita, which is known
>|as Palapada, is situated in the district of Nadia within a
>|forest about one mile south of the Cakadaha railway station.
>| The Ganges flows nearby. It is said that formerly Mahesa
>|Pandita lived on the eastern side of Jirat in the village
>|known as Masipura or Yasipura, and when Masipura merged
>|into the riverbed of the Ganges, the Deities there were
>|brought to Palapada, wh ich is situated in the midst of
>|various villages such as Beledanga, Berigrama, Sukhasagara,
>|Candude and Manasapota. (There are about fourteen villages,
>|and the entire neighborhood is known as Pancanagara
>|Paragana.) It is mentioned that Mahesa Pandita joined the
>|festival performed by Sri Nityananda Prabhu at Panihati.
>|Narottama dasa Thakura also joined in the festival, and
>|Mahesa Pandita saw him on that occasion. In the temple of
>|Mahesa Pandita there are Deities of Gaura-Nityananda, Sri
>|Gopinatha, Sri Madana-mohana and Radha-Govinda, as well as
>|a salagrama-sila.
325|Adi 11.33
326|TEXT 33
327|TEXT
328|navadvipe purusottama pandita mahasaya
329|nityananda-name yanra mahonmada haya
330|SYNONYMS
331|navadvipe purusottama-Purusottama of Navadvipa; pandita
>|mahasaya-a very learned scholar; nityananda-name-in the
>|name of Lord Nityananda Prabhu; yanra-whose; maha-unmada-
>|great ecstasy; haya-becomes.
332|TRANSLATION
333|Purusottama Pandita, a resident of Navadvipa, was the
>|eighth gopala. He would become almost mad as soon as he
>|heard the holy name of Nityananda Prabhu.
334|PURPORT
335|It is stated in the Caitanya-bhagavata that Purusottama
>|Pandita was born in Navadvipa and was a great devotee of
>|Lord Nityananda Prabhu. As one of the twelve gopalas, his
>|former name was Stokakrsna.
336|Adi 11.34
337|TEXT 34
338|TEXT
339|balarama dasa-krsna-prema-rasasvadi
340|nityananda-name haya parama unmadi
341|SYNONYMS
342|balarama-dasa-of the name Balarama dasa; krsna-prema-rasa-
>|the nectar of always merging in love of Krsna; asvadi-fully
>|tasting; nityananda-name-in the name of Sri Nityananda
>|Prabhu; haya-becomes; parama-greatly; unmadi-maddened.
343|TRANSLATION
344|Balarama dasa always fully tasted the nectar of love of
>|Krsna. Upon hearing the name of Nityananda Prabhu, he would
>|become greatly maddened.
345|Adi 11.35
346|TEXT 35
347|TEXT
348|maha-bhagavata yadunatha kavicandra
349|yanhara hrdaye nrtya kare nityananda
350|SYNONYMS
351|maha-bhagavata-a great devotee; yadunatha kavicandra-of the
>|name Yadunatha Kavicandra; yanhara-whose; hrdaye-in the
>|heart; nrtya-dancing; kare-does; nityananda-Lord Nityananda
>|Prabhu.
352|TRANSLATION
353|Yadunatha Kavicandra was a great devotee. Lord Nityananda
>|Prabhu always danced in his heart.
354|PURPORT
355|In the Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-lila, Chapter One, it
>|is said that a gentleman known as Ratnagarbha Acarya was a
>|friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's father. They were
>| residents of the same village. He had
>|three sons-Krsnananda, Jiva and Yadunatha Kavicandra.
356|Adi 11.36
357|TEXT 36
358|TEXT
359|radhe yanra janma krsnadasa dvijavara
360|sri-nityanandera tenho parama kinkara
361|SYNONYMS
362|radhe-in West Bengal; yanra-whose; janma-birth; krsnadasa-
>|of the name Krsnadasa; dvija-vara-the best brahmana; sri-
>|nityanandera-of Nityananda Prabhu; tenho-he; parama-first-
>|class; kinkara-servant.
363|TRANSLATION
364|The twenty-first devotee of Sri Nityananda in Bengal was
>|Krsnadasa Brahmana, who was a first-class servant of the
>|Lord.
365|PURPORT
366|Radha - desa refers to
>|the part of Bengal where the Ganges does not flow.
367|Adi 11.37
368|TEXT 37
369|TEXT
370|kala-krsnadasa bada vaisnava-pradhana
371|nityananda-candra vinu nahi jane ana
372|SYNONYMS
373|kala-krsnadasa-of the name Kala Krsnadasa; bada-great;
>|vaisnava-pradhana-first-class Vaisnava; nityananda-candra-
>|Lord Nityananda; vinu-except; nahi jane-he did not know;
>|ana-of anything else.
374|TRANSLATION
375|The twenty-second devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu was
>|Kala Krsnadasa, who was the ninth cowherd boy. He was a
>|first-class Vaisnava and did not know anything beyond
>|Nityananda Prabhu.
376|PURPORT
377|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 132) , it is said
>|that Kala Krsnadasa, who was also known as Kaliya Krsnadasa,
>| was formerly a gopa (cowherd boy) of the name Lavanga. He
>|was one of the twelve cowherd boys . Kaliya Krsnadasa had
>|his headquarters in a village named Akaihata, which is
>|situated in the district of Burdwan within the jurisdiction
>|of the post office and police station of Katwa. It is
>|situated on the road to Navadvipa. To reach Akaihata, one
>|has to go from the Vyandela junction station to the Katwa
>|railway station and then go about two miles, or one has to
>|get off at the Danihata station and from there go one mile.
>|The village of Akaihata is very small. In the month of
>|Caitra, on the day of Varuni, there is a festival
>|commemorating the disappearance day of Kala Krsnadasa.
378|Adi 11.38
379|TEXT 38
380|TEXT
381|sri-sadasiva kaviraja-bada mahasaya
382|sri-purusottama-dasa-tanhara tanaya
383|SYNONYMS
384|sri-sadasiva kaviraja-of the name Sri Sadasiva Kaviraja;
>|bada-great; mahasaya-respectable gentleman; sri-purusottama-
>|dasa- of the name Sri Purusottama dasa; tanhara tanaya-his
>|son.
385|TRANSLATION
386|The twenty-third and twenty-fourth prominent devotees of
>|Nityananda Prabhu were Sadasiva Kaviraja and his son
>|Purusottama dasa, who was the tenth gopala.
387|Adi 11.39
388|TEXT 39
389|TEXT
390|ajanma nimagna nityanandera carane
391|nirantara balya-lila kare krsna-sane
392|SYNONYMS
393|ajanma-from birth; nimagna-merged; nityanandera-of Lord
>|Nityananda Prabhu; carane-in the lotus feet; nirantara-
>|always; balya-lila-childish play; kare-does; krsna-sane-
>|with Krsna.
394|TRANSLATION
395|From birth, Purusottama dasa was merged in the service of
>|the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, and he always
>|engaged in childish play with Lord Krsna.
396|PURPORT
397|
>|Sadasiva Kaviraja and Nagara Purusottama, who
>|were father and son, are described in the Caitanya-
>|bhagavata as maha-bhagyavan, greatly fortunate. They
>|belonged to the vaidya caste of physicians. the
>|Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 156, says that Candravali, a
>|most beloved gopi of Krsna's, later took birth as Sadasiva
>|Kaviraja. In verses 194 and 200 it is said that Kamsari
>|Sena, the father of Sadasiva Kaviraja, was formerly the
>|gopi named Ratnavali in Krsna's pastimes. All the family
>|members of Sadasiva Kaviraja were great devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Purusottama dasa Thakura sometimes
>|lived at Sukhasagara, near the Cakadaha and Simurali
>|railway stations. All the Deities installed by Purusottama
>|Thakura were formerly situated in Beledanga-grama, but when
>|the temple was destroyed the Deities were brought to
>|Sukhasagara. When that temple merged into the bed of the
>|Ganges, the Deities were brought with Jahnava-mata's Deity
>|to Sahebadanga Bedigrama. Since that place also has been
>|destroyed, all the Deities are now situated in the village
>|named Candude-grama, which is situated one mile up from
>|Palapada, as referred to above.
398|Adi 11.40
399|TEXT 40
400|TEXT
401|tanra putra-mahasaya sri-kanu thakura
402|yanra dehe rahe krsna-premamrta-pura
403|SYNONYMS
404|tanra putra-his son; mahasaya-a respectable gentleman; sri-
>|kanu thakura-of the name Sri Kanu Thakura; yanra-whose;
>|dehe-in the body; rahe-remained; krsna-prema-amrta-pura-the
>|nectar of devotional service to Krsna.
405|TRANSLATION
406|Sri Kanu Thakura, a very respectable gentleman, was the son
>|of Purusottama dasa Thakura. He was such a great devotee
>|that Lord Krsna always lived in his body.
407|PURPORT
408|
>|To go to the headquarters of Kanu Thakura, one
>|has to proceed by boat from the Jhikaragacha-ghata station
>|to the river known as Kapotaksa. Otherwise, if one goes
>|about two or two and a half miles from the Jhikaragacha-
>|ghata station, he can see Bodhakhana, the headquarters of
>|Kanu Thakura. The son of Sadasiva was Purusottama Thakura,
>|and his son was Kanu Thakura. The descendants of Kanu
>|Thakura know him as Nagara Purusottama. He was the cowherd
>|boy named Dama during krsna-lila. It is said that just
>|after the birth of Kanu Thakura, his mother, Jahnava, died.
>|When he was about twelve days old, Sri Nityananda Prabhu
>|took him to His home at Khadadaha. It is ascertained that
>|Kanu Thakura was born some time in the Bengali year 942 (A.
>|D. 1535 ). It is said that he took birth on the Ratha-yatra
>|day. Because he was a great devotee of Lord Krsna from the
>|very beginning of his life, Sri Nityananda Prabhu gave him
>|the name Sisu Krsnadasa. When he was five years old he went
>|to Vrndavana with Jahnava-mata, and upon
>|seeing the ecstatic symptoms of Kanu Thakura, the Gosvamis
>|gave him the name Kanai Thakura.
409|In the family of Kanu Thakura there is a Radha-Krsna Deity
>|known as Pranavallabha. It is said that his family
>|worshiped this Deity long before the appearance of Lord
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When there was a Maharashtrian
>|invasion of Bengal, the family of Kanu Thakura was
>|scattered, and after the invasion one Harikrsna Gosvami of
>|that family came back to their original home, Bodhakhana,
>|and re-established the Pranavallabha Deity. The descendants
>|of the family still engage in the service of Pranavallabha.
>|Kanu Thakura was present during the Khetari utsava, when
>|Jahnava-devi and Virabhadra Gosvami were also present. One
>|of Kanu Thakura's family members, Madhavacarya, married the
>|daughter of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, who was named Gangadevi.
>|Both Purusottama Thakura and Kanu Thakura had many
>|disciples from brahmana families. Most of the disciplic
>|descendants of Kanu Thakura now reside in the village named
>|Gadabeta, by the river Silavati, in the Midnapore district.
>|
410|Adi 11.41
411|TEXT 41
412|TEXT
413|maha-bhagavata-srestha datta uddharana
414|sarva-bhave seve nityanandera carana
415|SYNONYMS
416|maha-bhagavata-great devotee; srestha-chief; datta-the
>|surname Datta; uddharana-of the name Uddharana; sarva-bhave-
>|in all respects; seve-worships; nityanandera-of Lord
>|Nityananda; carana-lotus feet.
417|TRANSLATION
418|Uddharana Datta Thakura, the eleventh among the twelve
>|cowherd boys, was an exalted devotee of Lord Nityananda
>|Prabhu. He worshiped the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda in
>|all respects.
419|PURPORT
420|
>|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika , verse 129 ,
>|states that Uddharana Datta Thakura was formerly the
>|cowherd boy of Vrndavana named Subahu. Uddharana Datta
>|Thakura, previously known as Sri Uddharana Datta, was a
>|resident of Saptagrama, which is situated on the bank of
>|the Sarasvati River near the Trisabigha railway station in
>|the district of Hugali. At the time of Uddharana Thakura,
>|Saptagrama was a very big town, encompassing many other
>|places such as Vasudeva-pura, Bansabediya, Krsnapura,
>|Nityananda-pura, Sivapura, Sankhanagara and Saptagrama.
421|Calcutta was developed under British rule by the
>|influential mercantile community, and especially by the
>|suvarna-vanik community who came down from Saptagrama to
>|establish their businesses and homes all over Calcutta.
>|They were known as the Saptagrami mercantile community of
>|Calcutta, and most of them belonged to the Mullik and Sil
>|families. More than half of Calcutta belonged to this
>|community, as did Srila Uddharana Thakura. Our paternal
>|family also came from this district and belonged to the
>|same community. The Mulliks of Calcutta are divided into
>|two families, namely, the Sil family and De family. All the
>|Mulliks of the De family originally belong to the same
>|family and gotra. We also formerly belonged to the branch
>|of the De family whose members, intimately connected with
>|the Muslim rulers, received the title Mullik.
422|In the Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-khanda, Chapter Five, it
>|is said that Uddharana Datta was an extremely elevated and
>|liberal Vaisnava. He was born with the right to worship
>|Nityananda Prabhu. It is also stated that Nityananda Prabhu,
>| after staying for some time in Khadadaha, came to
>|Saptagrama and stayed in the house of Uddharana Datta. The
>|suvarna-vanik community to which Uddharana Datta belonged
>|was actually a Vaisnava community. Its members were bankers
>|and gold merchants (suvarna means "gold," and vanik means "
>|merchant"). Long ago there was a misunderstanding between
>|Balla Sena and the suvarna-vanik community because of the
>|great banker Gauri Sena. Balla Sena was taking loans from
>|Gauri Sena and spending money extravagantly, and therefore
>|Gauri Sena stopped supplying money. Balla Sena took
>|revenge by instigating a social conspiracy to make the
>|suvarna-vaniks outcastes, and since then they have been
>|ostracized from the higher castes, namely , the brahmanas,
>|ksatriyas and vaisyas. But by the grace of Srila Nityananda
>|Prabhu, the suvarna-vanik community was again elevated. It
>|is said in the Caitanya-bhagavata, yateka vanik-kula
>|uddharana haite pavitra ha-ila dvidha nahika ihate: there
>|is no doubt that all the community members of the suvarna-
>|vanik society were again purified by Sri Nityananda Prabhu.
423|In Saptagrama there is still a temple with a six-armed
>|Deity of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu that was personally
>|worshiped by Srila Uddharana Datta Thakura. On the right
>|side of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is a Deity of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu, and on the left side is Gadadhara Prabhu.
>| There are also a Radha-Govinda murti and a salagrama-sila,
>|and below the throne is a picture of Sri Uddharana Datta
>|Thakura. In front of the temple there is now a big hall,
>|and in front of the hall is a Madhavi-lata plant. The
>|temple is in a very shady, cool and nicely situated
>|location. When we returned from America in 1967, the
>|executive committee members of this temple invited us to
>|visit it, and thus we had the opportunity to visit this
>|temple with some American students. Formerly, in our
>|childhood, we visited this temple with our parents because
>|all the members of the suvarna-vanik community
>|enthusiastically take interest in this temple of Uddharana
>|Datta Thakura. In the Bengali year 1283 (A.D. 1876) one
>|babaji of the name Nitai dasa arranged for a donation of
>|twelve bighas of land for this temple. The management of
>|the temple later deteriorated, but then in 1306 (A.D. 1899),
>| through the cooperation of the famous Balarama Mullik of
>|Hugali, who was a subjudge, and many rich suvarna-vanik
>|community members, the management of the temple improved
>|greatly. Not more than fifty years ago, one of the family
>|members of Uddharana Datta Thakura named Jagamohana Datta
>|established a wooden murti(statue) of Uddharana Datta
>|Thakura in the temple, but that murti is no longer there;
>|at present, a picture of Uddharana Datta Thakura is
>|worshiped. It is understood, however, that the wooden murti
>|of Uddharana Thakura was taken away by Sri Madana-mohana
>|Datta and is now being worshiped with a salagrama-sila by
>|Srinatha Datta.
424|Uddharana Datta Thakura was
>| the manager
>|of the estate of a big Zamindar
>|in Naihati , about one and a half
>|miles north of Katwa. The
>|relics of this royal family are still
>|visible near the Dainhata station .
>| Since Uddharana Datta Thakura was
>|
>|the manager of the estate
>|, it was also known as Uddharana
>|-pura. Uddharana Datta Thakura installed Nitai-Gaura
>|Deities that were later brought to the
>|house of the Zamindar, which was known
>|as Vanaoyaribada . Srila
>|Uddharana Datta Thakura remained a householder
>|throughout his life. His father 's name
>|was Srikara Datta, his mother 's name was
>|Bhadravati , and his son 's name
>|was Srinivasa Datta.
425|Adi 11.42
426|TEXT 42
427|TEXT
428|acarya vaisnavananda bhakti-adhikari
429|purve nama chila yanra 'raghunatha puri'
430|SYNONYMS
431|acarya-teacher; vaisnavananda-of the name Vaisnavananda;
>|bhakti-devotional service; adhikari-fit candidate; purve-
>|previously; nama-name; chila-was; yanra-whose; raghunatha
>|puri- of the name Raghunatha Puri.
432|TRANSLATION
433|The twenty-seventh prominent devotee of Nityananda Prabhu
>|was Acarya Vaisnavananda, a great personality in devotional
>|service. He was formerly known as Raghunatha Puri.
434|PURPORT
435|In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 97 , it is said that
>|Raghunatha Puri was previously very powerful in the eight
>|mystic successes. He was an incarnation of one of the
>|successes.
436|Adi 11.43
437|TEXT 43
438|TEXT
439|visnudasa, nandana, gangadasa-tina bhai
440|purve yanra ghare chila thakura nitai
441|SYNONYMS
442|visnudasa-of the name Visnudasa; nandana- of the name
>|Nandana; gangadasa- of the name Gangadasa; tina bhai-three
>|brothers; purve-previously; yanra-whose; ghare-in the house;
>| chila-stayed; thakura nitai-Nityananda Prabhu.
443|TRANSLATION
444|Another important devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu was
>|Visnudasa, who had two brothers, Nandana and Gangadasa.
>|Lord Nityananda Prabhu sometimes stayed at their house.
445|PURPORT
446|The three brothers Visnudasa, Nandana and Gangadasa were
>|residents of Navadvipa and belonged to the Bhattacarya
>|brahmana family. Both Visnudasa and Gangadasa stayed for
>|some time with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri,
>|and the Caitanya-bhagavata states that formerly Nityananda
>|Prabhu stayed at their house.
447|Adi 11.44
448|TEXT 44
449|TEXT
450|nityananda-bhrtya-paramananda upadhyaya
451|sri-jiva pandita nityananda-guna gaya
452|SYNONYMS
453|nityananda-bhrtya-servant of Nityananda Prabhu; paramananda
>|upadhyaya-of the name Paramananda Upadhyaya; sri-jiva
>|pandita- of the name Sri Jiva Pandita; nityananda-Lord
>|Nityananda Prabhu; guna-qualities; gaya-glorified.
454|TRANSLATION
455|Paramananda Upadhyaya was Nityananda Prabhu's great
>|servitor. Sri Jiva Pandita glorified the qualities of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu.
456|PURPORT
457|Sri Paramananda Upadhyaya was an advanced devotee. His name
>|is mentioned in the Caitanya-bhagavata, where Sri Jiva
>|Pandita is also mentioned as the second son of Ratnagarbha
>|Acarya and a childhood friend of Hadai Ojha, the father of
>|Nityananda Prabhu. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse
>|169 , it is said that Sri Jiva Pandita was formerly the
>|gopi named Indira.
458|Adi 11.45
459|TEXT 45
460|TEXT
461|paramananda gupta-krsna-bhakta mahamati
462|purve yanra ghare nityanandera vasati
463|SYNONYMS
464|paramananda gupta-of the name Paramananda Gupta; krsna-
>|bhakta-a great devotee of Lord Krsna; maha-mati-advanced in
>|spiritual consciousness; purve-formerly; yanra-whose; ghare-
>|in the house; nityanandera-of Lord Nityananda Prabhu;
>|vasati-residence.
465|TRANSLATION
466|The thirty-first devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu was
>|Paramananda Gupta, who was greatly devoted to Lord Krsna
>|and highly advanced in spiritual consciousness. Formerly
>|Nityananda Prabhu also resided at his house for some time.
467|PURPORT
468|Paramananda Gupta composed a prayer to Lord Krsna known as
>|Krsna-stavavali. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verses 194
>|and 199 , it is stated that he was formerly the gopi named
>|Manjumedha.
469|Adi 11.46
470|TEXT 46
471|TEXT
472|narayana, krsnadasa ara manohara
473|devananda-cari bhai nitai-kinkara
474|SYNONYMS
475|narayana-of the name Narayana; krsnadasa- of the name
>|Krsnadasa; ara-and; manohara- of the name Manohara;
>|devananda- of the name Devananda; cari bhai-four brothers;
>|nitai-kinkara-servants of Lord Nityananda Prabhu.
476|TRANSLATION
477|The thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-
>|fifth prominent devotees were Narayana, Krsnadasa, Manohara
>|and Devananda, who always engaged in the service of Lord
>|Nityananda.
478|Adi 11.47
479|TEXT 47
480|TEXT
481|hoda krsnadasa-nityananda-prabhu-prana
482|nityananda-pada vinu nahi jane ana
483|SYNONYMS
484|hoda krsnadasa-of the name Hoda Krsnadasa; nityananda-
>|prabhu-of Lord Nityananda; prana-life and soul; nityananda-
>|pada-the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda; vinu-except; nahi-
>|does not; jane-know; ana-anything else.
485|TRANSLATION
486|The thirty-sixth devotee of Lord Nityananda was Hoda
>|Krsnadasa, whose life and soul was Nityananda Prabhu. He
>|was always dedicated to the lotus feet of Nityananda, and
>|he knew no one else but Him.
487|PURPORT
488|The residence of Krsnadasa Hoda was Badagachi, which is now
>|in Bangladesh.
489|Adi 11.48
490|TEXT 48
491|TEXT
492|nakadi, mukunda, surya, madhava, sridhara
493|ramananda vasu, jagannatha, mahidhara
494|SYNONYMS
495|nakadi-of the name Nakadi; mukunda- of the name Mukunda;
>|surya- of the name Surya; madhava- of the name Madhava;
>|sridhara- of the name Sridhara; ramananda vasu- of the name
>|Ramananda Vasu; jagannatha- of the name Jagannatha;
>|mahidhara- of the name Mahidhara.
496|TRANSLATION
497|Among Lord Nityananda's devotees, Nakadi was the thirty-
>|seventh, Mukunda the thirty-eighth, Surya the thirty-ninth,
>|Madhava the fortieth, Sridhara the forty-first, Ramananda
>|the forty-second, Jagannatha the forty-third and Mahidhara
>|the forty-fourth.
498|PURPORT
499|Sridhara was the twelfth gopala.
500|Adi 11.49
501|TEXT 49
502|TEXT
503|srimanta, gokula-dasa hariharananda
504|sivai, nandai, avadhuta paramananda
505|SYNONYMS
506|sri-manta-of the name Srimanta; gokula-dasa- of the name
>|Gokula dasa; hariharananda- of the name Hariharananda;
>|sivai- of the name Sivai; nandai- of the name Nandai;
>|avadhuta paramananda- of the name Avadhuta Paramananda.
507|TRANSLATION
508|Srimanta was the forty-fifth, Gokula dasa the forty-sixth,
>|Hariharananda the forty-seventh, Sivai the forty-eighth,
>|Nandai the forty-ninth and Paramananda the fiftieth.
509|Adi 11.50
510|TEXT 50
511|TEXT
512|vasanta, navani hoda, gopala, sanatana
513|visnai hajara, krsnananda, sulocana
514|SYNONYMS
515|vasanta-of the name Vasanta; navani hoda- of the name
>|Navani Hoda; gopala- of the name Gopala; sanatana- of the
>|name Sanatana; visnai hajara- of the name Visnai Hajara;
>|krsnananda- of the name Krsnananda; sulocana- of the name
>|Sulocana.
516|TRANSLATION
517|Vasanta was the fifty-first, Navani Hoda the fifty-second,
>|Gopala the fifty-third, Sanatana the fifty-fourth, Visnai
>|the fifty-fifth, Krsnananda the fifty-sixth and Sulocana
>|the fifty-seventh.
518|PURPORT
519|
>|Navani Hoda appears to have been the same
>|person as Hoda Krsnadasa, the son of the King of Badagachi.
>|His father's name was Hari Hoda. One can visit Badagachi by
>|taking the Lalagola-ghata railway line. Formerly the Ganges
>|flowed by Badagachi, but now it has become a canal known as
>|the Kalsira Khala. Near the Mudagacha station is a village
>|known as Saligrama in which King Krsnadasa arranged for the
>|marriage of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, as described in the
>|Bhakti-ratnakara ,(Twelfth Wave). It is sometimes said that
>|Navani Hoda was the son of Raja Krsnadasa. His descendants
>|still live in Rukunapura, a village near Bahiragachi. They
>|belong to the daksina-radhiya-kayastha community, but,
>|having been reformed as brahmanas, they still initiate all
>|classes of men.
520|Adi 11.51
521|TEXT 51
522|TEXT
523|kamsari sena, ramasena, ramacandra kaviraja
524|govinda, sriranga, mukunda, tina kaviraja
525|SYNONYMS
526|kamsari sena-of the name Kamsari Sena; ramasena- of the
>|name Ramasena; ramacandra kaviraja- of the name Ramacandra
>|Kaviraja; govinda- of the name Govinda; sriranga- of the
>|name Sriranga; mukunda- of the name Mukunda; tina kaviraja-
>|all three are Kavirajas, or physicians.
527|TRANSLATION
528|The fifty-eighth great devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu
>|was Kamsari Sena, the fifty-ninth was Ramasena, the
>|sixtieth was Ramacandra Kaviraja, and the sixty-first,
>|sixty-second and sixty-third were Govinda, Sriranga and
>|Mukunda, who were all physicians.
529|PURPORT
530|Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja, the son of Khandavasi Ciranjiva
>|and Sunanda, was a disciple of Srinivasa Acarya and the
>|most intimate friend of Narottama dasa Thakura, who prayed
>|several times for his association. His youngest brother was
>|Govinda Kaviraja. Srila Jiva Gosvami very much appreciated
>|Sri Ramacandra Kaviraja's great devotion to Lord Krsna and
>|therefore gave him the title Kaviraja. Sri Ramacandra
>|Kaviraja, who was perpetually disinterested in family life,
>|greatly assisted in the preaching work of Srinivasa Acarya
>|and Narottama dasa Thakura. He resided at first in
>|Srikhanda but later in the village of Kumara-nagara on the
>|bank of the Ganges.
531|Govinda Kaviraja was the brother of Ramacandra Kaviraja and
>|youngest son of Ciranjiva of Srikhanda. Although at first a
>|sakta, or worshiper of Goddess Durga, he was later
>|initiated by Srinivasa Acarya Prabhu. Govinda Kaviraja also
>|resided first in Srikhanda and then in Kumara-nagara, but
>|later he moved to the village known as Teliya Budhari, on
>|the southern bank of the river Padma. Since Govinda
>|Kaviraja, the author of two books, Sangita-madhava and
>|Gitamrta, was a great Vaisnava kavi, or poet, Srila Jiva
>|Gosvami gave him the title Kaviraja. He is described in the
>|Bhakti-ratnakara (Ninth Wave).
532|Kamsari Sena was formerly Ratnavali in Vraja, as described
>|in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verses 194 and 200 .
533|Adi 11.52
534|TEXT 52
535|TEXT
536|pitambara, madhavacarya, dasa damodara
537|sankara, mukunda, jnana-dasa, manohara
538|SYNONYMS
539|pitambara-of the name Pitambara; madhavacarya- of the name
>|Madhavacarya; dasa damodara- of the name Damodara dasa;
>|sankara- of the name Sankara; mukunda- of the name Mukunda;
>|jnana-dasa- of the name Jnana dasa; manohara- of the name
>|Manohara.
540|TRANSLATION
541|Among the devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Pitambara was
>|the sixty-fourth, Madhavacarya the sixty-fifth, Damodara
>|dasa the sixty-sixth, Sankara the sixty-seventh, Mukunda
>|the sixty-eighth, Jnana dasa the sixty-ninth and Manohara
>|the seventieth.
542|Adi 11.53
543|TEXT 53
544|TEXT
545|nartaka gopala, ramabhadra, gauranga-dasa
546|nrsimha-caitanya, minaketana ramadasa
547|SYNONYMS
548|nartaka gopala-the dancer Gopala; ramabhadra-of the name
>|Ramabhadra; gauranga-dasa- of the name Gauranga dasa;
>|nrsimha-caitanya- of the name Nrsimha-caitanya; minaketana
>|rama-dasa- of the name Minaketana Ramadasa.
549|TRANSLATION
550|The dancer Gopala was the seventy-first, Ramabhadra the
>|seventy-second, Gauranga dasa the seventy-third, Nrsimha-
>|caitanya the seventy-fourth and Minaketana Ramadasa the
>|seventy-fifth.
551|PURPORT
552|The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 68 , describes
>|Minaketana Ramadasa as an incarnation of Sankarsana.
553|Adi 11.54
554|TEXT 54
555|TEXT
556|vrndavana-dasa-narayanira nandana
557|'caitanya-mangala' yenho karila racana
558|SYNONYMS
559|vrndavana-dasa-Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura; narayanira
>|nandana-son of Narayani; caitanya-mangala-the book of the
>|name Caitanya-mangala; yenho-who; karila-did; racana-
>|composition.
560|TRANSLATION
561|Vrndavana dasa Thakura, the son of Srimati Narayani,
>|composed Sri Caitanya-mangala [later known as Sri Caitanya-
>|bhagavata].
562|Adi 11.55
563|TEXT 55
564|TEXT
565|bhagavate krsna-lila varnila vedavyasa
566|caitanya-lilate vyasa-vrndavana dasa
567|SYNONYMS
568|bhagavate-in Srimad-Bhagavatam; krsna-lila-the pastimes of
>|Lord Krsna; varnila-described; veda-vyasa-Dvaipayana
>|Vyasadeva; caitanya-lilate-in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya;
>| vyasa-Vedavyasa; vrndavana dasa-Srila Vrndavana dasa
>|Thakura.
569|TRANSLATION
570|Srila Vyasadeva described the pastimes of Krsna in Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam. The Vyasa of the pastimes of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu was Vrndavana dasa.
571|PURPORT
572|Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura was an incarnation of
>|Vedavyasa and also a friendly cowherd boy named Kusumapida
>|in krsna-lila. In other words, the author of Sri Caitanya-
>|bhagavata, Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura, the son of Srivasa
>|Thakura's niece Narayani, was a combined incarnation of
>|Vedavyasa and the cowherd boy Kusumapida. There is a
>|descriptive statement by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
>|Thakura in his commentary on Sri Caitanya-bhagavata giving
>|the biographical details of the life of Vrndavana dasa
>|Thakura.
573|Adi 11.56
574|TEXT 56
575|TEXT
576|sarvasakha-srestha virabhadra gosani
577|tanra upasakha yata, tara anta nai
578|SYNONYMS
579|sarva-sakha-srestha-the best of all the branches;
>|virabhadra gosani-of the name Virabhadra Gosani; tanra
>|upasakha-His subbranches; yata-all; tara-of them; anta-
>|limit; nai-there is not.
580|TRANSLATION
581|Among all the branches of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Virabhadra
>|Gosani was the topmost. His subbranches were unlimited.
582|Adi 11.57
583|TEXT 57
584|TEXT
585|ananta nityananda-gana-ke karu ganana
586|atma-pavitrata-hetu likhilan kata jana
587|SYNONYMS
588|ananta-unlimited; nityananda-gana-followers of Sri
>|Nityananda Prabhu; ke karu-who can; ganana-count; atma-
>|pavitrata-of self-purification; hetu-for the reason;
>|likhilan-I have written; kata jana-some of them.
589|TRANSLATION
590|No one can count the unlimited followers of Nityananda
>|Prabhu. I have mentioned some of them just for my self-
>|purification.
591|Adi 11.58
592|TEXT 58
593|TEXT
594|ei sarva-sakha purna-pakva prema-phale
595|yare dekhe, tare diya bhasaila sakale
596|SYNONYMS
597|ei-these; sarva-sakha-all branches; purna-complete; pakva
>|prema-phale-with ripened fruits of love of Godhead; yare
>|dekhe-whomever they see; tare diya-distributing to him;
>|bhasaila-overflooded; sakale-all of them.
598|TRANSLATION
599|All these branches, the devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu,
>|being full of ripened fruits of love of Krsna, distributed
>|these fruits to all they met, flooding them with love of
>|Krsna.
600|Adi 11.59
601|TEXT 59
602|TEXT
603|anargala prema sabara, cesta anargala
604|prema dite, krsna dite dhare mahabala
605|SYNONYMS
606|anargala-unchecked; prema-love of Krsna; sabara-of everyone
>|of them; cesta-activity; anargala-unchecked; prema dite-to
>|give love of Krsna; krsna dite-to deliver Krsna; dhare-they
>|possess; mahabala-great strength.
607|TRANSLATION
608|All these devotees had unlimited strength to deliver
>|unobstructed, unceasing love of Krsna. By their own
>|strength they could offer anyone Krsna and love of Krsna.
609|PURPORT
610|Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung, krsna se tomara, krsna
>|dite para, tomara sakati ache. In this song, Bhaktivinoda
>|Thakura describes that a pure Vaisnava, as the proprietor
>|of Krsna and love of Krsna, can deliver both to anyone and
>|everyone he likes. Therefore to get Krsna and love of Krsna
>|one must seek the mercy of pure devotees. Srila Visvanatha
>|Cakravarti Thakura also says, yasya prasadad bhagavat-
>|prasado yasyaprasadan na gatih kuto 'pi: "By the mercy
>|of the spiritual master one is blessed by the mercy of
>|Krsna. Without the grace of the spiritual master one cannot
>|make any advancement." By the grace of a Vaisnava or bona
>|fide spiritual master one can get both love of Godhead,
>|Krsna, and Krsna Himself.
611|Adi 11.60
612|TEXT 60
613|TEXT
614|sanksepe kahilan ei nityananda-gana
615|yanhara avadhi na paya 'sahasra-vadana'
616|SYNONYMS
617|sanksepe-in brief; kahilan-described; ei-these; nityananda-
>|gana-devotees of Lord Nityananda; yanhara-of whom; avadhi-
>|limitation; na-does not; paya-get; sahasra-vadana-the
>|thousand-mouthed Sesa Naga, on whom Lord Visnu lies.
618|TRANSLATION
619|I have briefly described only some of the followers and
>|devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. Even the thousand-
>|mouthed Sesa Naga cannot describe all of these unlimited
>|devotees.
620|Adi 11.61
621|TEXT 61
622|TEXT
623|sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
624|caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
625|SYNONYMS
626|sri-rupa-Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha-Srila Raghunatha
>|dasa Gosvami; pade-at the lotus feet; yara-whose; asa-
>|expectation; caitanya-caritamrta-the book named Caitanya-
>|caritamrta; kahe-describes; krsna-dasa-Srila Krsnadasa
>|Kaviraja Gosvami.
627|TRANSLATION
628|With an ardent desire to serve the purpose of Sri Rupa and
>|Sri Raghunatha, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-
>|caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
629|Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-
>|caritamrta, Adi-lila, Eleventh Chapter, in the matter of
>|the expansions of Lord Nityananda.
630|