Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.1.69, 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 69 of Antya-khanda chapter 1—“Meeting Again at the House of Shri Advaita Acarya”.
Verse 3.1.69
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.1.69:
তথি-মধ্যে কেহ কেহ অত্যন্ত পামর তারা বলে,—“এত কেনে কান্দেন বিস্তর” ॥ ৬৯ ॥
तथि-मध्ये केह केह अत्यन्त पामर तारा बले,—“एत केने कान्देन विस्तर” ॥ ६९ ॥
tathi-madhye keha keha atyanta pāmara tārā bale,—“eta kene kāndena vistara” || 69 ||
tathi-madhye keha keha atyanta pamara tara bale,—“eta kene kandena vistara” (69)
English translation:
(69) Among them, there were a few most sinful people, who asked, “Why does He cry so much?”
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The phrase tathi-madhye means “among them.”
According to the Medinī dictionary: pāmaraḥ khala-nīcayoḥ—“the word
pāmara refers to the cheaters and the wretched.”