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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.20
ফাল্গুনপূর্ণিমা–সন্ধ্যায় প্রভুর জন্মোদয় ।
সেইকালে দৈবযোগে চন্দ্রগ্রহণ হয় ॥ ২০ ॥
phālguna-pūrṇimā-sandhyāya prabhura janmodaya
sei-kāle daiva-yoge candra-grahaṇa haya
On the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna when the Lord took birth, coincidentally there was also a lunar eclipse.
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The Lord took birth in the month of Phālguna.
His birth took place on the full-moon evening.
Coincidentally, there was also a lunar eclipse.
Jubilation and hope. The Lord appears in Navadvīpa; the theological promise becomes a lived story.
The mood of Ādi 13 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:
Then, in 1407 Śaka Era (A.D. 1486), in the full-moon evening of the month of Phālguna, with the constellation of Siṁha (Leo) on the horizon, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared as the son of Śrī Śacīdevī and Jagannātha Miśra. After hearing of the birth of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, learned scholars and brāhmaṇas, bringing many gifts, came to see the newborn baby.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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Read the translation once and recall its three details: the month, the full-moon evening and the lunar eclipse.
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