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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.74
তবে পুত্র জনমিলা ‘বিশ্বরূপ’ নাম ।
মহা–গুণবান্ তেঁহ–‘বলদেব’–ধাম ॥ ৭৪ ॥
tabe putra janamilā ‘viśvarūpa’ nāma
mahā-guṇavān teṅha — ‘baladeva’-dhāma
After this, Jagannātha Miśra got a son of the name Viśvarūpa, who was most powerful and highly qualified because He was an incarnation of Baladeva.
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Jagannātha Miśra received a son named Viśvarūpa, who was most powerful and highly qualified because He was an incarnation of Baladeva. He was the elder brother of Gaurahari, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
When arrangements were being made for His marriage, Viśvarūpa took sannyāsa and left home. His sannyāsa name was Śaṅkarāraṇya.
As an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Viśvarūpa is both the ingredient and immediate cause of material creation. He is nondifferent from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, because the part and the whole are not different.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
After her ninth pregnancy she gave birth to a son, who was named Viśvarūpa. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 13
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