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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.15
বড় শাখা,—গদাধর পণ্ডিত–গোসাঞি ।
তেঁহো লক্ষ্মীরূপা, তাঁর সম কেহ নাই ॥ ১৫ ॥
baḍa śākhā, — gadādhara paṇḍita-gosāñi
teṅho lakṣmī-rūpā, tāṅra sama keha nāi
Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the fourth branch, is described as an incarnation of the pleasure potency of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. No one, therefore, can equal him.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Gadādhara Paṇḍita, the fourth branch, is an incarnation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure potency. No one can equal him.
The pleasure potency formerly known as Vṛndāvaneśvarī is personified as Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita in Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes.
The purport describes Gadādhara Paṇḍita as simultaneously an incarnation of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Lalitā-sakhī.
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”
Rādhā-bhāva · The confidential inner purpose
The Lord’s desire to taste the love and perspective of Śrī Rādhā, illuminated by later ecstatic pastimes. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “rādhārāṇī”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does Gadādhara Paṇḍita’s identity deepen your appreciation of his place in Lord Caitanya’s pastimes?
Write down Gadādhara Paṇḍita’s name and, beside it, “Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure potency.”
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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