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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 10.73
বনমালী পণ্ডিত শাখা বিখ্যাত জগতে ।
সোণার মুষল হল দেখিল প্রভুর হাতে ॥ ৭৩ ॥
vanamālī paṇḍita śākhā vikhyāta jagate
soṇāra muṣala hala dekhila prabhura hāte
Vanamālī Paṇḍita, the thirty-fifth branch of the tree, was very much celebrated in this world. He saw a golden club and plow in the hands of the Lord.
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Vanamālī Paṇḍita was the thirty-fifth branch of the tree and was very much celebrated in this world.
He saw a golden club and plow in the hands of the Lord.
The purport explains that he saw Lord Caitanya in the ecstasy of Balarāma.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Belonging and gratitude. Many devotees become branches of one living network of devotion.
The mood of Ādi 10 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
This chapter describes the branches of the tree named Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Back to this verse in Ādi 10
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “branch”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What detail of Vanamālī Paṇḍita’s vision helps you remember this account?
Read the translation slowly and recall what Vanamālī Paṇḍita saw in the Lord’s hands.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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