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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.45
কভু মৃদুহক্তে কৈল মাতাকে তাড়ন ।
মাতাকে মূর্চ্ছিতা দেখি’ করয়ে ক্রন্দন ॥ ৪৫ ॥
kabhu mṛdu-haste kaila mātāke tāḍana
mātāke mūrcchitā dekhi’ karaye krandana
Once the child, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, chastised His mother with His soft hand, and His mother pretended to faint. Seeing this, the Lord began to cry.
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Once, the child Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised His mother with His soft hand.
His mother responded by pretending to faint.
Seeing her in that condition, the Lord began to cry.
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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