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Chaitanya Charitamrita (Krishnadasa Kaviraja)

শ্রীচৈতন্যচরিতামৃত

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byChaitanya Mahaprabhu

In three parts —Adi, Madhya and Antya— it narrates childhood and the Navadvipa years summarily and dwells on the Puri period, the journeys and the final "divine madness". It integrates the theology of the Gosvamis: Chaitanya as Radha and Krishna in one body, the doctrine of divine energy, the degrees of love. Tony K. Stewart has shown how it fixed a canonical version that absorbed and displaced earlier biographies. It is the work any reader looks for when approaching Chaitanya.

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Authorship note

It is not Chaitanya's work but the theological biography Krishnadasa Kaviraja wrote in Vrindavan some eighty years after his death, in Bengali with thousands of Sanskrit quotations. It records dialogues and teachings it places in the master's mouth; its value as evidence of his words is indirect. The completion date is debated (1581 or, more probably, around 1612-1615).

Editions and translations

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English

  • Caitanya Caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja: A Translation and Commentary — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

    Caitanya Caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja: A Translation and Commentary

    Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University (Harvard Oriental Series 56), 1999

    Translation: Edward C. Dimock Jr.; ed. de Tony K. Stewart

    ISBN 9780674002852

    Traducción académica de referencia.

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  • Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī (Ādi-līlā, vol. 1) — Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

    Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī (Ādi-līlā, vol. 1)

    Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1973

    Translation: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

    ISBN 9780912776507

    Primer volumen de la edición en 17 tomos (1973-1975), con texto bengalí, transliteración y comentario devocional.

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  • Chaitanya's Life and Teachings, from His Contemporary Bengali Biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita

    M. C. Sarkar & Sons, 1922

    Translation: Jadunath Sarkar

    Traducción parcial (sobre todo Madhya-lila); 1.ª ed. 1913. Texto en Project Gutenberg n.º 38016.

Español

  • Caitanya-caritāmṛta

    Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Argentina

    Translation: Versión española de la edición de A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

    ISBN 9780956605108

    Año no consignado en la ficha de Open Library.

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Other works by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Sources

  • Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja. Caitanya Caritāmṛta of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja: A Translation and Commentary. Trad. de Edward C. Dimock Jr.; introd. de Edward C. Dimock Jr. y Tony K. Stewart; ed. de Tony K. Stewart. Harvard Oriental Series 56. Cambridge (Mass.): Dept. of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1999. ISBN 9780674002852.

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