Ādi 10.67
TEXT 67
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TEXT
খোলা-বেচা শ্রীধর প্রভুর প্রিয়দাস ।
যাঁহা-সনে প্রভু করে নিত্য পরিহাস ॥ ৬৭ ॥ khola-veca sridhara prabhura priyadasa
yaṅha-sane prabhu kare nitya parihasa
SYNONYMS
khola-veca-a person who sells the bark of banana trees; sridhara-Sridhara Prabhu; prabhura-of the Lord; priya-dasa-very dear servant; yaṅha-sane-with whom; prabhu-the Lord; kare-does; nitya-daily; parihasa-joking.
TRANSLATION
The twenty-ninth branch was Sridhara, a trader in banana tree bark. He was a very dear servant of the Lord. On many occasions, the Lord played jokes on him.
PURPORT
Sridhara was a poor brahmana who made a living by selling banana tree bark to be made into cups. Most probably he had a banana tree garden and collected the leaves, skin and pulp of the banana trees to sell daily in the market. He spent fifty percent of his income to worship the Ganges, and the balance he used for his subsistence. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu started His civil disobedience movement in defiance of the Kazi, Sridhara danced in jublilation. The Lord used to drink water from his water jug. Sridhara presented a squash to Sacidevi to cook before Lord Caitanya took sannyasa. Every year he went to see Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. According to Kavikarnapura, Sridhara was a cowherd boy of Vrndavana whose name was Kusumasava. In his Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 133, it is stated:
kholavecataya khyatah panditah sridharo dvijah
asid vraje hasya-karo yo namna kusumasavah "The cowherd boy known as Kusumasava in krsna-lila later became Kholaveca Sridhara during Caitanya Mahaprabhu's lila at Navadvipa."
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