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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.7
প্রথমে ত’ সূত্ররূপে করিয়ে গণন ।
পাছে তাহা বিস্তারি করিব বিবরণ ॥ ৭ ॥
prathame ta’ sūtra-rūpe kariye gaṇana
pācṅe tāhā vistāri kariba vivaraṇa
First let me give a synopsis of the Lord’s pastimes. Then I shall describe them in detail.
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The author first intends to give a synopsis of the Lord’s pastimes.
After the synopsis, he will describe the pastimes in detail.
His account therefore begins with an overview before moving to a fuller description.
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:
Within the Lord’s antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā. During this time, Caitanya Mahāprabhu toured southern India, went to Vṛndāvana, returned from Vṛndāvana and preached the saṅkīrtana movement.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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