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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.46
নারীগণ কহে,—“নারিকেল দেহ আনি’ ।
তবে সুস্থ হইবেন তোমার জননী ॥” ৪৬ ॥
nārīgaṇa kahe, — “nārikela deha āni’
tabe sustha ha-ibena tomāra jananī”
The neighboring ladies told Him, “Dear child, please bring a coconut from somewhere, and then Your mother will be cured.”
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The neighboring ladies addressed the Lord affectionately as “Dear child.”
They asked Him to bring a coconut from somewhere.
They told Him that His mother would then be cured.
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:
The chapter further describes how He displayed Himself as a naughty boy, how when His mother fainted He brought a coconut to her on His head, how He joked with girls of the same age on the banks of the Ganges, how He accepted worshipful paraphernalia from Śrīmatī Lakṣmīdevī, how He sat down in a garbage pit and instructed His mother in transcendental knowledge, how He left the pit on the order of His mother, and how He dealt with His father with full affection.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 14
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