Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Adi 10.17

vakresvara pandita -- prabhura bada priya bhritya

eka-bhave cabbisa prahara yanra nritya

SYNONYMS

vakresvara pandita -- Vakresvara Pandita; prabhura -- of the Lord; bada -- very; priya -- dear; bhritya -- servant; eka-bhave -- continuously in the same ecstasy; cabbisa -- twenty-four; prahara -- a duration of time comprising three hours; yanra -- whose; nritya -- dancing.

TRANSLATION

Vakresvara Pandita, the fifth branch of the tree, was a very dear servant of Lord Caitanya's. He could dance with constant ecstasy for seventy-two hours.

PURPORT

In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (71) it is stated that Vakresvara Pandita was an incarnation of Aniruddha, one of the quadruple expansions of Vishnu (Vasudeva, Sankarshana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna). He could dance wonderfully for seventy-two continuous hours. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu played in dramatic performances in the house of Srivasa Pandita, Vakresvara Pandita was one of the chief dancers, and he danced continuously for that length of time. Sri Govinda dasa, an Oriya devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has described the life of Vakresvara Pandita in his book Gaura-krishnodaya. There are many disciples of Vakresvara Pandita in Orissa, and they are known as Gaudiya Vaishnavas although they are Oriyas. Among these disciples are Sri Gopalaguru and his disciple Sri Dhyanacandra Gosvami.

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