CC Adi 11.50

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - Chapter 11: The Expansions of Lord Nityānanda

Ādi-līlā 11.49 - Ādi-līlā 11.51

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 50

vasanta, navanī hoḍa, gopāla, sanātana

viṣṇāi hājarā, kṛṣṇānanda, sulocana

SYNONYMS

vasanta — Vasanta; navanī hoḍa — Navanī Hoḍa; gopāla — Gopāla; sanātana — Sanātana; viṣṇāi hājarā — Viṣṇāi Hājarā; kṛṣṇānanda — Kṛṣṇānanda; sulocana — Sulocana.

TRANSLATION

Vasanta was the fifty-first, Navanī Hoḍa the fifty-second, Gopāla the fifty-third, Sanātana the fifty-fourth, Viṣṇāi the fifty-fifth, Kṛṣṇānanda the fifty-sixth and Sulocana the fifty-seventh.

PURPORT

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, “Navanī Hoḍa appears to have been the same person as Hoḍa Kṛṣṇadāsa, the son of the King of Baḍagāchi. His father’s name was Hari Hoḍa. One can visit Baḍagāchi by taking the Lālagolā-ghāṭa railway line. Formerly the Ganges flowed by Baḍagāchi, but now it has become a canal known as the Kālśira Khāla. Near the Muḍāgāchā station is a village known as Śāligrāma in which King Kṛṣṇadāsa arranged for the marriage of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, as described in the Bhakti-ratnākara (Twelfth Wave). It is sometimes said that Navanī Hoḍa was the son of Rāja Kṛṣṇadāsa. His descendants still live in Rukuṇapura, a village near Bahiragāchi. They belong to the dakṣiṇa-rāḍhīya-kāyastha community, but, having been reformed as brāhmaṇas, they still initiate all classes of men.”

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