132 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 2

TEXT 10

ASA CUS SA TANGA A |
cea, sted, feara aeED-cacHt SHAH I 5° I

sapta-dvipera loka ara nava-khanda-vasi
deva, gandharva, kinnara manusya-vese dsi’

SYNONYMS

sapta-dvipera loka—people from all of the seven islands within the universe;
dra—and; nava-khanda-vasi—the inhabitants of the nine khandas; deva—
demigods; gandharva—the inhabitants of Gandharvaloka; kinnara—the inhabit-
ants of Kinnaraloka; manusya-vese—in the form of human beings; asi’—coming.

TRANSLATION

People from all over the universe, including the seven islands, the nine
khandas, the planets of the demigods, Gandharvaloka and Kinnaraloka, would
go there in the forms of human beings.

PURPORT

For an explanation of sapta-dvipa, see Madhya-lila, Chapter Twenty, verse 218,
and Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapters Sixteen and Twenty. In the Sid-
dhanta-siromani, Chapter One (Goladhydya), in the Bhuvana-kosa section, the
nine khandas are mentioned as follows:

aindram kaseru sakalam kila tamraparnam
anyad gabhastimad atas ca kumarikakhyam

nagam ca saumyam iha varunam antya-khandam
gandharva-samjnam iti bharata-varsa-madhye

“Within Bhadrata-varsa, there are nine khandas. They are known as (1) Aindra, (2)
KaSeru, (3) Tamraparna, (4) Gabhastimat, (5) Kumarika, (6) Naga, (7) Saumya, (8)
Varuna and (9) Gandharva.”

TEXT 11
aera cafal aH Cae? Sol |
ae afer ace Aa cotatfad Saal is 4

prabhure dekhiyd yaya ‘vaisnava’ hafia
krsna bali’ nace saba premavista haha
