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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.10
সেই ক্ষণে জাগি’ নিমাই করয়ে ক্রন্দন ।
অঙ্কে লঞা শচী তাঁরে পিয়াইল স্তন ॥ ১০ ॥
sei kṣaṇe jāgi’ nimāi karaye krandana
aṅke lañā śacī tāṅre piyāila stana
While mother Śacī and Jagannātha Miśra were talking, child Nimāi woke up and began to cry, and mother Śacī took Him on her lap and allowed Him to suck her breast.
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Mother Śacī and Jagannātha Miśra were talking when child Nimāi woke up.
Nimāi began to cry, and mother Śacī took Him on her lap.
Mother Śacī allowed Him to suck her breast, caring for Him as her child.
Parental tenderness and play. Nimāi’s childhood alternates affection, mischief, and revelations.
The mood of Ādi 14 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:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given a summary of this chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya: “In the fourteenth chapter there is a description of how Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enjoyed His childhood pastimes — crawling, crying, eating dirt and giving intelligence to His mother, favoring a brāhmaṇa guest, riding on the shoulders of two thieves and misleading them to His own house, and, on the plea of being diseased, taking prasādam in the house of Hiraṇya and Jagadīśa on the Ekādaśī day.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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