Caitanya Caritamrta

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Radhe Radhe.
Dandavat Pranams.

I am looking for a good edition of the Caitanya Caritamrta in english other than the version translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Can someone please provide some guidance.

Thank you.

[Nityānanda dāsa]

Radhe Radhe Krishna Caitanya Das-ji!

Thanks for the question. The main edition I know of is the one done by Ed Dimock and Tony Stewart. The physical book is hard to find for a reasonable price. When it was in print it was around $100 now people want exorbitant amounts for it. Here are links to it on archive(dot)org...

1st half - archive.org/details/DimocksCC1stHalf
2nd half - archive.org/details/DimocksCC2ndHalf

Also Īśvaradāsa (Eduardo-ji) knows of a few other editions in English. Hopefully he can post them here and maybe even links too! (Thanks Bhai-ji!)

I hope this is helpful! Jai Sri Radhe!

[Nitaidas]

Good suggestion, Nilamadhavadasji. That is in my view the best translation of the text available at present. It is great that it is available on archive.org. I would also recommend Chaudhuri's earlier translation, though it lacks the Adi-lila. It is written in very pleasant English, though without the scholarly aids (footnotes and references). I would also recommend Shishir Kumar's two volume Lord Gauranga which is also on the archive. Dinesh Chandra Sen's books on Sri Chaitanya also incorporate sections from the Caritamrta in them and are well worth reading. His books are also on the archive as are Dr Kapoors books on the philosophy and religion of Sri Caitanya and on the saints of the tradition, from whose life stories we can learn much.

রাধে রাধে!

[Īśvaradāsa]

May 21, 2021 4:20:40 GMT -6 Nityānanda dāsa said:

Radhe Radhe Krishna Caitanya Das-ji!

Thanks for the question. The main edition I know of is the one done by Ed Dimock and Tony Stewart. The physical book is hard to find for a reasonable price. When it was in print it was around $100 now people want exorbitant amounts for it. Here are links to it on archive(dot)org...

1st half - archive.org/details/DimocksCC1stHalf
2nd half - archive.org/details/DimocksCC2ndHalf

Also Īśvaradāsa (Eduardo-ji) knows of a few other editions in English. Hopefully he can post them here and maybe even links too! (Thanks Bhai-ji!)

I hope this is helpful! Jai Sri Radhe!

The only other ones I know that are available online are these:

CC translated by Sanjib Kumar Chaudhuri and edited by Nagendra Kumar (just the Madhya and Antya lila sections)

CC translated by N.K. Banerjee (just the Adi lila section)

I don't know of any other full versions aside from Dimock and Stewart's. I use all of them, mostly Dimock's along with the BBT's transliteration and word for word, and when in confusion about a passage I look at the others to get another reading. 

There's also Jadunath Sarkara's Chaitanya's Life and Teachings which covers some, or most, of the chapters in the Madhya lila, if I recall correctly. I liked it. 

Hope this helps,

Jay Radhe!