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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 11.53
নর্তক গোপাল, রামভদ্র, গৌরাঙ্গদাস ।
নৃসিংহচৈতন্য, মীনকেতন রামদাস ॥ ৫৩ ॥
nartaka gopāla, rāmabhadra, gaurāṅga-dāsa
nṛsiṁha-caitanya, mīnaketana rāmadāsa
The dancer Gopāla was the seventy-first, Rāmabhadra the seventy-second, Gaurāṅga dāsa the seventy-third, Nṛsiṁha-caitanya the seventy-fourth and Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa the seventy-fifth.
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The dancer Gopāla is listed as the seventy-first, and Rāmabhadra as the seventy-second.
Gaurāṅga dāsa, Nṛsiṁha-caitanya and Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa are listed as the seventy-third, seventy-fourth and seventy-fifth.
The Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā describes Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa as an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Affectionate inclusiveness. Nityānanda’s branches show devotion multiplying through relationships.
The mood of Ādi 11 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
As the branches and subbranches of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu were described in the tenth chapter, in this eleventh chapter the branches and subbranches of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu are similarly listed.Back to this verse in Ādi 11
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How does the purport deepen your understanding of Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa?
Write one sentence noting whom Mīnaketana Rāmadāsa is described as an incarnation of.
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