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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 11.50
বসন্ত, নবনী হোড়, গোপাল, সনাতন ।
বিষ্ণাই হাজরা, কৃষ্ণানন্দ, সুলোচন ॥ ৫০ ॥
vasanta, navanī hoḍa, gopāla, sanātana
viṣṇāi hājarā, kṛṣṇānanda, sulocana
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.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The translation lists Vasanta, Navanī Hoḍa, Gopāla, Sanātana, Viṣṇāi, Kṛṣṇānanda and Sulocana.
Navanī Hoḍa appears to have been Hoḍa Kṛṣṇadāsa, whose father was Hari Hoḍa. The purport also records that he is sometimes said to have been the son of Rāja Kṛṣṇadāsa.
King Kṛṣṇadāsa arranged for the marriage of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu in Śāligrāma. The purport describes Navanī Hoḍa’s descendants as reformed brāhmaṇas who initiate all classes of men.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Affectionate inclusiveness. Nityānanda’s branches show devotion multiplying through relationships.
The mood of Ādi 11 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
As the branches and subbranches of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu were described in the tenth chapter, in this eleventh chapter the branches and subbranches of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu are similarly listed.Back to this verse in Ādi 11
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
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: “hari”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which name or detail in this account would you like to remember?
Write down Navanī Hoḍa’s name and one detail about him, keeping the purport’s uncertainty about his identity.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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