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The Advent of Lord Caitanya
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SYNONYMS
durvā —fresh grass;  dhānya —paddy;  dila —gave;  śīrṣe —on the head;  kaila —did;  bahu —with much;  āśīṣe —blessing;  cirajīvī —live long;  hao —become;  dui bhāi —two brothers;  ḍākinī-śāṅkhinī —ghosts and witches;  haite —from;  śaṅkā —doubt;  upajila —grew;  cite —in the heart;  ḍare —out of fear;  nāma —name;  thuila —kept;  nimāi —Lord Caitanya's childhood name, derived from the  nima  ( nimba ) tree.
TRANSLATION
She blessed the newly born child by placing fresh grass and paddy on His head and saying, "May You be blessed with a long duration of life." But being afraid of ghosts and witches, she gave the child the name Nimāi.
PURPORT
Ƿākinī and Śāṅkhinī are two companions of Lord Śiva and his wife who are supposed to be extremely inauspicious, having been born of ghostly life. It is believed that such inauspicious living creatures cannot go near a  nima  tree. At least medically it is accepted that  nima  wood is extremely antiseptic, and formerly it was customary to have a  nima  tree in front of one's house. On very large roads in India, especially in Uttar Pradesh, there are hundreds and thousands of  nima  trees.  Nima  wood is so antiseptic that the Āyurvedic science uses it to cure leprosy. Medical scientists have extracted the active principle of the  nima  tree, which is called margosic acid.  Nima  is used for many purposes, especially to brush the teeth. In Indian villages ninety percent of the people use  nima  twigs for this purpose. Because of all the antiseptic effects of the  nima  tree and because Lord Caitanya was born beneath a  nima  tree, Śītā Țhākurāṇī gave the Lord the name Nimāi. Later in His youth He was celebrated as Nimāi Paṇḍita, and in the neighborhood villages He was called by that name, although His real name was Viśvambhara.
TEXT 118
পুত্রমাতা-স্নানদিনে, দিল বস্ত্র বিভূষণে, পুত্র-সহ মিশ্রের সম্মানি। শ্রী-মিশ্রের পুত্রা লঞ্চা, মনেতে হরিষ হঞ্চা, ঘরে আইলা সীতা ঠাকুরাণী ॥ ১১৮ ॥
putramātā-snānadine, dila vastra vibhūṣaṇe, putra-saha miśrere sammāni' śacī-miśrera pūjā lañā, manete hariṣa hañā, ghare āilā sītā ṭhākurāṇī
SYNONYMS
putra-mātā —of the mother and child;  snāna-dine —on the day of bathing;  dila —gave;  vastra —cloth;  vibhūṣaṇe —ornaments;  putra-saha —with the child;  miśrere —unto