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BY: SUN STAFF
Lord Caitanya embraces Sanatana Goswami Feb 25, CANADA (SUN) — A serial exploration of the holy sites visited by Lord Caitanya. Naya-tripadi
Today we continue our exploration of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's South India preaching excursion with a survey of Naya-tripadi tirtha. While we did not mean for this Feature series to digress into a running complaint about the editorial changes made to Srila Prabhupada's books, it has unfortunately slid sideways into that arena. This segment illustrates the frustrating mash to be found in the various BBT editions of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. We begin, as usual, with the Summary to Madhya Lila 9: Madhya Lila 9 Summary "Then the Lord went to Setubandha and took His bath at Dhanus-tirtha. He also visited Ramesvara, where He collected some papers connected with Sitadevi, whose illusory form was kidnapped by Ravana. The Lord next visited the places known as Pandya-desa, Tamraparni, Naya-tripadi, Ciyadatala, Tila-kanci, Gajendra-moksana, Panagadi, Camtapura, Sri Vaikuntha, Malaya-parvata and Kanya-kumari. The Lord then met the Bhattatharis at Mallara-desa and saved Kala Krsnadasa from their clutches." This Madhya 9 Summary text comes from Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur's Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. The above version is from the BBT's revised edition of Madhya Lila. In the original edition, the spelling of this place name is not "Naya-tripadi", but "Nayatripadi" (un-hyphenated). Later in Madhya Lila 9, we find additional information about the Lord's visit to Naya-tripadi: Madhya Lila 9.219 (Revised edition)
SYNONYMS TRANSLATION PURPORT In the revised edition of Madhya Lila 9, we find that the spelling has been changed from "Naya-tripadi" to "Naya-tripati", which seems understandable, since that spelling is given in the 9.219 sloka. Unfortunately, the other bolded items represent revisions that are not so understandable. Following is the so-called 'original edition' version of this verse, from PrabhupadaBooks.com: Madhya 9.219 (Original edition at Prabhupadabooks.com)
SYNONYMS TRANSLATION PURPORT Here we find several very significant discrepancies, in the Synonyms, Translation and Purport of the verse. #1
The BBT revised edition Synonyms states:
We can further add to this confusion the fact that even the Prabhupadabooks.com so-called "original version" differs from the hardcopy first edition, first printing (1975) of Madhya Lila, Volume 4, Chapter 9, verse 219, in which the Purport states:
What could be more frustrating?! As we pointed out in the recent segment on Camtapura, even slight changes to place names can make an enormous difference to a student of Caitanya-caritamrta who is attempting to research the places where Lord Caitanya preached. It is difficult enough dealing with great passages of time, shifting rivers, changing dynasties and governments, temples being re-named and Deities moved and re-installed. Having to deal on top of that with multiple versions of the Sampradaya Acarya, Srila Prabhupada's books is maddening, to say the least. On that note, we will bring this segment to a close, as a show of our frustration, disheartenment and protest. We will continue tomorrow in a better spirit, and unwind what the reader will find is a complexity of names, places and anecdotes that become rather more complicated. At the heart of it, however, is the enduringly beautiful preaching sojourn of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in South India, which no editor can ruin by nonsense word jugglery and unauthorized changes.
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