Sri Gaura-Govinda-Nama-Kirtana-Ratna-Mala by Siddha Manohar

[Nitaidas]

Verse 6:

vande śrīlajagannāthaṃ dvijamiśrapurandaram |
śrīśacīṃ śaṅkarāraṇyaṃ putraṃ vande mahāprabhum || 6||


vande śrīla-jagannāthaṃ
I praise Jagannātha,
dvija-miśra-purandaram
hero of the twice-born Miśras,
śrī-śacīṃ śaṅkarāraṇyaṃ
Śacī, Śaṅkarāraṇya,
putraṃ vande mahāprabhum
son, I praise, great lord.

I praise Śrīla Jagannātha,
hero of the twice-born Miśras,
Śrī Śacī and Śaṅkarāraṇya,
and I praise their son, the great lord. (6)

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Verse 7:

hāḍāipaṇḍitaṃ vande vande padmāvatīṃ tathā |\\
nityānandasutaṃ vande rohiṇīnandanaṃ purā || 7||


hāḍāipaṇḍitaṃ vande
Hāḍāi Paṇḍita I praise
vande padmāvatīṃ tathā
I praise Padmāvatī as well
nityānandasutaṃ vande
Nityānanda [their] son I praise
rohiṇī-nandanaṃ purā
of Rohiṇī, the son previously.

I praise Hāḍāi Paṇḍita
and his wife Padmāvatī.
I praise their son Nityānanda,
who was Rohiṇī's son before. (7)

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Verse 8:

kuverācāryakaṃ vande nābhādevīṃ ca tatpriyām |\\
tatsutaṃ śrīmahāviṣṇuṃ vande ācāryamīśvaram || 8||


kuverācāryakaṃ vande
Kuverācārya I praise
nābhādevīṃ ca tatpriyām
Nābhādevī and his beloved
tatsutaṃ śrīmahāviṣṇuṃ
their son Śrī Mahāviṣṇu
vande ācāryamīśvaram
I praise the teacher lord.

I praise Kuverācārya
and his dear wife Nābhādevī.
Their son, Śrī Mahāviṣṇu,
I praise, the lord as teacher.* (8)

*Advaitācārya.

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Verse 9:

mādhavendrapurīṃ vande śrī-īśvarapurīṃ tathā |\\
vande śrīparamānanda-purīṃ viṣṇupurīṃ tataḥ || 9||


mādhavendrapurīṃ vande
Mādhavendra Purī I praise
śrī-īśvarapurīṃ tathā
Śrī Īśvara Purī as well.
vande śrīparamānanda-
I praise Śrī Paramānanda-
purīṃ viṣṇupurīṃ tataḥ
Purī Viṣṇu Purī after that.

I praise Mādhavendra Purī
and Śrī Īśvara Purī, too.
I praise Śrī Paramānanda
Purī and then Viṣṇu Purī. (9)

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Verse 10:

raghunāthapurīṃ vande kṛṣṇānandapurīṃ tathā |\\
śrīnṛsiṃhaṃ sukhānanda-purīṃ vande anantakam || 10||


raghunāthapurīṃ vande
Raghunātha Purī I praise
kṛṣṇānandapurīṃ tathā
Kṛṣṇānanda Purī as well
śrīnṛsiṃhaṃ sukhānanda-
Śrī Nṛsiṃha Sukhānanda
purīṃ vande anantakam
Purī I praise endlessly.

I praise Raghunātha Purī
so too Kṛṣṇānanda Purī.
Śrī Nṛsiṃha and Sukhānanda
Purī do I praise without end. (10)

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Verse 11:

vande viśveśvarānandaṃ dāmodarapurīṃ tathā |\\
śrīgovindaṃ brahmānanda-purīṃ vande tataḥparam || 11||


vande viśveśvarānandaṃ
I praise Viśveśvarānanda
dāmodarapurīṃ tathā
Dāmodara Purī as well.
śrīgovindaṃ brahmānanda-
Śrī Govinda, Brahmānanda-
purīṃ vande tataḥparam
Purī I praise after that.

I praise Viśveśvarānanda,
so too Dāmodara Purī.
Śrī Govinda and Brahmānanda
Purī do I praise after that. (11)

[Ed]

These audios sound great, very clear, and I really like the way you sang them, what you said about the rhythm is more clear to me now, thank you, I'll practice them. For some reason, the very first audio link leads me to an error page so I couldn't download it. Indeed, these last few verses are in a much more familiar format, much easier to sing with the traditional tunes I've heard.

Unfortunately, so far I have no idea who Viśveśvarānanda is. I'm assuming Govinda is the former servant of Isvara Puri. Dāmodara Purī is probably Svarup Damodara, right?. The others are mentioned in CC Ādi 9.13-15

paramānanda purī, āra keśava bhāratī
brahmānanda purī, āra brahmānanda bhāratī

viṣṇu-purī, keśava-purī, purī kṛṣṇānanda
śrī-nṛsiṁhatīrtha, āra purī sukhānanda

ei nava mūla nikasila vṛkṣa-mūle
ei nava mūle vṛkṣa karila niścale 

And Raghunātha Purī is mentioned as one of the followers of Nityananda in CC Ādi 11.42

ācārya vaiṣṇavānanda bhakti-adhikārī
pūrve nāma chila yāṅra ‘raghunātha purī’

[jiva]

Oct 18, 2019 20:43:03 GMT -6 Nitaidas said:

"By the communal singing of the names (nāma-saṅkīrtana) of the 
bhaktas as well as of Śrī Bhagavān and his companions, the
 forms, qualities, and divine play of Bhagavān gradually appear in the
 heart of a practitioner. When that happens, aspects of suffering in
 the form of sins, aspects of offenses which inhibit divine love, and 
aspects of a subtle dullness taking the form of bonds of ignorance are
 gradually uprooted, in that order."

I've always liked names of devotees. I don't know why.

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Verse 12:

rāmacandrapurīṃ vande vande keśavabhāratīm |\\
brahmānandaṃ balarāma-bhāratīṃ praṇāmyaham || 12||


rāmacandrapurīṃ vande
Rāmacandra Purī I praise
vande keśavabhāratīm
I praise Keśavabhāratī
brahmānandaṃ balarāma-
Brahmānanda, Balarāma
bhāratīṃ praṇāmy aham
Bhāratī bow down I.


I praise Rāmacandra Purī and
I praise Keśava Bhāratī.
To Brahmānanda as well as
Balarāma Bhāratī I bow. (12)

[Thanks, Eduardo, for hunting down some of the names of these bhaktas. I suspect they are all in the CC or CB somewhere. Maybe the Bhakti-ratnakara would also be a good source.]

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Verse 13:

śrīrāmānandabhāratīṃ vallabhabhāratīṃ tathā |\\
śrīyadunandanaṃ vande śyāmānandaṃ ca bhāratīṃ || 13||


śrīrāmānandabhāratīṃ
Śrī Rāmānanda Bhāratī
vallabhabhāratīṃ tathā
Vallabha Bhāratī as well
śrīyadunandanaṃ vande
Śrī Yadunandana I praise
śyāmānandaṃ ca bhāratīṃ
Śyāmānanda and Bhāratī.

Śrī Rāmānanda Bhāratī,
so too Vallabha Bhāratī,
Yadunandana I extoll,
with Śyāmānanda Bhāratī. (13)

Here, too, is the document I have been compiling as I do individual verses. It has the verses in Devanagari, Bengali, and Roman transliteration. You can access it here.

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Here is my first crack at a recording of the first 21 verses of the GGNKRM. It is flawed, I will be first to admit. Nevertheless, it might give some sense of what the text sounds like when sung or chanted. I will try to refine it and make it more accurate. Eventually, I want the whole text to be available in audio so that it can be used in kirtana. That seems to be the intention of Siddha Babaji in composing the text, that is should be sung and used as a powerful sadhana to develop Gaura and Govinda preman. In the meantime I have noticed that another Vaisnava-vandana has been written, which has been published by Sundarananda, from the 17th century by Devakinandana Dasa. It appears to be in Bengali and not Sanskrit.

Anyway, here is my attempt.

I have also updated the pdf for this text. You can download it from the previous post on this thread.

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Meenoji (Minaketana Ramdasji, my other gurubhai apart from Jagadish dassji), you are a better musician than I. It would be great if, as we progress on this text, you could make a recording of yourself chanting it. I will keep posting updated versions of the text and, of course, I will send it to you in the original. I am very optimistic about it, more optimistic about this than I have been about anything for many years.

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Here is the latest version of the Vainava-vandana composed by Siddha Manohar Das Babaji. I have and will continue to work on it. I am almost halfway through it and have sung it as kirtana a few times. You can access it here.

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I am also back at work on this. Thanks to Nilamadhavadasji, I do not have to do the transliteration for the text. I can just concentrate on the typesetting and translation. I will have an update in a couple of days.

राधे राधे !

[JD33]

Nitai-Gaur, Radhey-Shyam; Hare Krsna, Hare Ram.

Nitai Dass Ji - how is the work progressing?