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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 12.29
নীলাচলে তেঁহো এক পত্রিকা লিখিয়া ।
প্রতাপরুদ্রের পাশ দিল পাঠাইয়া ॥ ২৯ ॥
nīlācale teṅho eka patrikā likhiyā
pratāparudrera pāśa dila pāṭhāiyā
When Kamalākānta Viśvāsa was in Jagannātha Purī, he sent a note through someone to Mahārāja Pratāparudra.
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Kamalākānta Viśvāsa was in Jagannātha Purī.
He sent a note to Mahārāja Pratāparudra.
He sent the note through another person.
Loyalty and discernment. The narrative distinguishes fidelity to the ācārya from deviation.
The mood of Ādi 12 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The story of Kamalākānta Viśvāsa concerns his borrowing three hundred rupees from Pratāparudra Mahārāja to clear a debt of Advaita Ācārya’s, for which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised him when He came to know of it. Kamalākānta Viśvāsa was then purified by the request of Śrī Advaita Ācārya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 12
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