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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.57
কোন কন্যা পলাইল নৈবেদ্য লইয়া ।
তারে ডাকি’ কহে প্রভু সক্রোধ হইয়া ॥৫৭ ॥
kona kanyā palāila naivedya la-iyā
tāre ḍāki’ kahe prabhu sakrodha ha-iyā
When some of the girls fled, the Lord called them in anger and advised them as follows:
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Some of the girls fled from the Lord.
The Lord called to them in anger.
He addressed the girls with advice, which follows in His next words.
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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