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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 13.89
চৌদ্দশত সাতশকে মাস যে ফাল্গুন ।
পৌর্ণমাসীর সন্ধ্যাকালে হৈলে শুভক্ষণ ॥ ৮৯ ॥
caudda-śata sāta-śake māsa ye phālguna
paurṇamāsīra sandhyā-kāle haile śubha-kṣaṇa
Thus in the year 1407 of the Śaka Era [A.D. 1486], in the month of Phālguna [February-March], in the evening of the full-moon day, the desired auspicious moment arrived.
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The desired auspicious moment arrived in the year 1407 of the Śaka Era, corresponding to A.D. 1486.
It was the evening of the full-moon day in Phālguna, corresponding to February-March.
The purport notes that Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura presented Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s horoscope in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya.
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:
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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