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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
mentioned, were composed on the basis of  kārcas  by Śrīla Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Murāri Gupta.
So the Lord advented Himself on the Phālguni Pūrṇimā evening of 1407  Śakabda , and it was by the will of the Lord that there was a lunar eclipse on that evening. During the hours of eclipse it was the custom of the Hindu public to take bath in the Ganges or any other sacred river and chant the Vedic  mantras  for purification. When Lord Caitanya was born during the lunar eclipse, all India was roaring with the holy sound of  Hare Kṛṣṇa ,  Hare Kṛṣṇa ,  Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa ,  Hare Hare /  Hare Rāma ,  Hare Rāma ,  Rāma Rāma ,  Hare Hare . These sixteen names of the Lord are mentioned in many  Purāṇas  and  Upaniṣads , and they are described as the  Tāraka-Brahman-Nāma  of this age. It is recommended in the  śāstras  that offenseless chanting of these holy names of the Lord can deliver a fallen soul from material bondage. There are innumerable names of the Lord both in India and outside, and all of them are equally good because all of them indicate the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because these sixteen are especially recommended for this age, people should take advantage of them and follow the path of the great  ācāryas  who attained success by practicing the rules of the  śāstras  (revealed scriptures).
The simultaneous occurrence of the Lord's appearance and the lunar eclipse indicated the distinctive mission of the Lord. This mission was to preach the importance of chanting the holy names of the Lord in this age of Kali (quarrel). In this present age quarrels take place even over trifles, and therefore the  śāstras  have recommended for this age a common platform for realization, namely chanting the holy names of the Lord. People can hold meetings to glorify the Lord in their respective languages and with melodious songs, and if such performances are executed in an offenseless manner, it is certain that the participants will gradually attain spiritual perfection without having to undergo more rigorous methods. At such meetings everyone, the learned and the foolish, the rich and the poor, the Hindus and the Muslims, the Englishman and the Indians, and the  caṇḍāla  and the  brāhmaṇas , can all hear the transcendental sounds and thus cleanse the dust of material association from the mirror of the heart. To confirm the Lord's mission all the people of the world will accept the holy name of the Lord as the common platform for the universal religion of mankind. In other words, the advent of the holy name took place along with the advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
When the Lord was on the lap of His mother, He would at once stop crying as soon as the ladies surrounding Him chanted the holy names and clapped their hands. This peculiar incidence was observed by the neighbors