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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.11
স্তন পিয়াইতে পুত্রের চরণ দেখিল ।
সেই চিহ্ন পায়ে দেখি’ মিশ্রে বোলাইল ॥ ১১ ॥
stana piyāite putrera caraṇa dekhila
sei cihna pāye dekhi’ miśre bolāila
While mother Śacī was feeding the child from her breast, she saw on His lotus feet all the marks that were visible on the floor of the room, and she called for Jagannātha Miśra.
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Mother Śacī was feeding the child from her breast when she noticed His lotus feet.
She saw on His feet all the marks that were visible on the floor of the room.
After seeing the matching marks, she called for Jagannātha Miśra.
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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In this verse: “lotus feet”
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What connection did mother Śacī notice between the child’s lotus feet and the floor?
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