Post by Nitaidas on Mar 1, 2012 16:54:56 GMT -6
Well, in celebration of the coming appearance day of Sri Mahaprabhu I have decided to start another translation. Like all my other translations, It will grow slowly, at a maddeningly slow pace. Still, some day hope is that it will join Murari's Kadaca as the second entry in our Caitanyite Bible:
1 The Gospel of Murarigupta
2 The First Gospel of Kavikarnapura
3. The Gospel of Vrndavana Dasa
4. The Gospel of Locana Dasa
5. The Second Gospel of Kavikarnapura (the Caitanya-candrodaya Nataka)
We should print them altogether and put them in hotel rooms, no?
Anyway, here it is, the first verse of Kavikarnapura's first work:
yaḥ śrīvṛndāvanabhuvi purā saccidānandasāndro\\
gaurāṅgībhiḥ sadṛśarucibhiḥ śyāmadhāmā nanarta|\\
tāsāṃ śaśvaddṛḍhataraparīrambhasambhedataḥ kiṃ\\
gaurāṅgaḥ san jayati sa navadvīpamālambamānaḥ|| 1||
Before, in the land of Śrī Vṛndāvan,\\
Solid being, consciousness, and bliss, he\\
Of dark glory danced with golden-limbed girls,\\
Who had a splendor much like his.\\
Did he, from union with them through\\
Their forever intenser embraces,\\
Become gold-limbed himself and find\\
A resort in Navadvīpa?\\
May he be crowned with victory. (1)
[More of Gupta later. I am working on chapter 10, Mahaprabhu's wedding to Laksmidevi.]
1 The Gospel of Murarigupta
2 The First Gospel of Kavikarnapura
3. The Gospel of Vrndavana Dasa
4. The Gospel of Locana Dasa
5. The Second Gospel of Kavikarnapura (the Caitanya-candrodaya Nataka)
We should print them altogether and put them in hotel rooms, no?
Anyway, here it is, the first verse of Kavikarnapura's first work:
yaḥ śrīvṛndāvanabhuvi purā saccidānandasāndro\\
gaurāṅgībhiḥ sadṛśarucibhiḥ śyāmadhāmā nanarta|\\
tāsāṃ śaśvaddṛḍhataraparīrambhasambhedataḥ kiṃ\\
gaurāṅgaḥ san jayati sa navadvīpamālambamānaḥ|| 1||
Before, in the land of Śrī Vṛndāvan,\\
Solid being, consciousness, and bliss, he\\
Of dark glory danced with golden-limbed girls,\\
Who had a splendor much like his.\\
Did he, from union with them through\\
Their forever intenser embraces,\\
Become gold-limbed himself and find\\
A resort in Navadvīpa?\\
May he be crowned with victory. (1)
[More of Gupta later. I am working on chapter 10, Mahaprabhu's wedding to Laksmidevi.]
