Text 117] The Lord’s Return to Jagannatha Puri 165

TRANSLATION

Sri Svarupa Damodara used to read the poems of Vidya4pati and Candidasa
and Jayadeva Gosvami’s Sri Gita-govinda. He used to make Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu very happy by singing these songs.

TEXT 116

HAS NaH, “IcMW qe=rifs |
aicaita-nAy eta aie qetafs ti ssw i

sangite —gandharva-sama, sastre brhaspati
damodara-sama ara nahi maha-mati

SYNONYMS

sangite—in music; gandharva-sama—just like the Gandharvas; sastre—in dis-
cussions of revealed scriptures; brhaspati—like Brhaspati, the priest of the
heavenly demigods; damodara-sama—equal to Svartipa Damodara; ara—anyone
else; nahi—there is not; mahad-mati—great personality.

TRANSLATION

Svaripa Damodara was as expert a musician as the Gandharvas, and in
scriptural discussion he was just like Brhaspati, the priest of the heavenly
gods. Therefore it is to be concluded that there was no great personality quite
like Svaripa Damodara.

PURPORT

Svartipa Damodara Gosvami was very expert in music as well as Vedic scrip-
tures. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabbu used to call him Damodara because of his expert
singing and musical skills. The name Damodara was given by Sri Caitanya
Mahdprabhu and added to the name given by his sannydsa-guru. He was
therefore known as Svartipa Damodara, or Damodara Svartipa. He compiled a
book of music named Sarigita-damodara.

TEXT 117

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advaita-nityanandera parama priyatama
srivasadi bhakta-ganera haya prana-sama
