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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.112
পুরুষোত্তম, শ্ৰীগালীম, জগন্নাথদাস ।
শ্রীচন্দ্রশেখর বৈদ্য, দ্বিজ হরিদাস ॥ ১১২ ॥
puruṣottama, śrī-gālīma, jagannātha-dāsa
śrī-candraśekhara vaidya, dvija haridāsa
The sixty-eighth branch of the original tree was Puruṣottama, the sixty-ninth was Śrī Gālīma, the seventieth was Jagannātha dāsa, the seventy-first was Śrī Candraśekhara Vaidya, and the seventy-second was Dvija Haridāsa.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The branches named here are Puruṣottama, Śrī Gālīma, Jagannātha dāsa, Śrī Candraśekhara Vaidya and Dvija Haridāsa.
The purport says there is some question about whether Dvija Haridāsa wrote Aṣṭottara-śata-nāma. His authorship is not presented as certain.
Dvija Haridāsa had two sons, Śrīdāma and Gokulānanda, who were disciples of Śrī Advaita Ācārya. Their village was Kāñcana-gaḍiyā.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.
The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Back to this verse in Ādi 10
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “branch”, “branches”
Nāma-saṅkīrtana · The holy name shared together
Chanting the holy names as the yuga-dharma, the Lord’s public movement, and the opening prayer of Śikṣāṣṭaka. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “haridāsa”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Why is it helpful to notice when the purport leaves a historical detail uncertain?
Note the names of Dvija Haridāsa’s two sons and their spiritual master, keeping the uncertain authorship separate.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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