Text 39] Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes 151

PURPORT

In His childhood the Lord was profusely decorated with gold ornaments. Once
upon a time He was playing outside His house, and two thieves passing on the street
saw the opportunity to rob the Lord and therefore took Him on their shoulders,
pleasing Him by offering Him some sweetmeats. The thieves thought they would
carry the child to the forest and then kill Him and take away the ornaments. The
Lord, however, expanded His illusory energy upon the thieves, so much so that
instead of carrying Him to the forest they came right back in front of the house of
the Lord. When they came before His house they became afraid because everyone
from the house of Jagannatha Misra and all the inhabitants of that quarter were
busy searching for the child. Therefore the thieves, thinking it dangerous to remain,
went away and left Him. The child was brought within the house of mother Saci,
who was in great anxiety, and she became satisfied. This incident is also very
elaborately explained in the Adi-fifa of Caitanya-bhagavata, Third Chapter.

TEXT 39

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vyddhi-chale jagadisa-hiratiya-sadane
visnu-naivedya khaila ekadasi-dine

SYNONYMS

vyGdhi-chale—on the plea of being diseased; jagadisa-hiranya—of the names
Jagadiga and Hiranya; sadane—in the house of; visnu-naivedya—foodstuffs offered
to Lord Visnu; khd/fa—ate; ekGdosT—of Ekadasi; dine—on the day.

TRANSLATION

Pretending to be sick, the Lord asked some foodstuffs from the house of
Hiranya and Jagadiga on the day of Ekadagi.

PURPORT

The Caitanya-bhagavata, Adi-lila, Chapter Four, fully describes the Lord’s ac-
cepting visnu-pras@da on the Ekadast day at the house of Jagadisa and Hiranmya.
Regular prasdda is offered to Lord Visnu on Ekadasi because fasting is recommended
for devotees on Ekadasi but not for Lord Visnu. Once on Ekadasi in the house of
Jagadisa and Hiranya Pandita there were arrangements to prepare special prasdda
for Lord Visnu, and Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked His father to go there to ask
for the visru-prasada because He was feeling sick. The house of Jagadisa and Hiranya
Pandita was situated about two miles off from the house of Jagannatha Misra.
Therefore when Jagannatha Misra, on the request of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu,
