Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 10.15

bada sakha, -- gadadhara pandita-gosani

tenho laksmi-rupa, tanra sama keha nai

SYNONYMS

bada sakha -- big branch; gadadhara pandita-gosani -- the descendants or disciplic succession of Gadadhara Pandita; tenho -- Gadadhara Pandita; laksmi-rupa -- incarnation of the pleasure potency of Lord Krsna; tanra -- his; sama -- equal; keha -- anyone; nai -- there is none.

TRANSLATION

Gadadhara Pandita, the fourth branch, is described as an incarnation of the pleasure potency of Sri Krsna. No one, therefore, can equal him.

PURPORT

In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (147-53) it is stated, "The pleasure potency of Sri Krsna formerly known as Vrndavanesvari is now personified in the form of Sri Gadadhara Pandita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu." Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has pointed out that in the shape of Laksmi, the pleasure potency of Krsna, she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Syamasundara-vallabha. The same Syamasundara-vallabha was present in Lord Caitanya's pastimes as Gadadhara Pandita. Formerly, as Lalita-sakhi, she was always devoted to Srimati Radharani. Thus Gadadhara Pandita is simultaneously an incarnation of Srimati Radharani and Lalita-sakhi. In the Twelfth Chapter of this part of the Caitanya-caritamrta there is a description of the descendants or disciplic succession of Gadadhara Pandita.

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