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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.59
ইহা শুনি’ তা–সবার মনে হইল ভয় ।
কোন কিছু জানে, কিবা দেবাবিষ্ট হয় ॥ ৫৯ ॥
ihā śuni’ tā-sabāra mane ha-ila bhaya
kona kichu jāne, kibā devāviṣṭa haya
Hearing this supposed curse by Lord Caitanya, the girls, considering that He might know something uncommon or be empowered by demigods, were afraid that His curse might be effective.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The girls heard Lord Caitanya’s supposed curse.
They considered that He might know something uncommon or be empowered by demigods.
They became afraid that His curse might actually take effect.
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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What did the girls’ fear reveal about what they thought the Lord might know or possess?
Reread the translation and identify the two possibilities the girls considered about the Lord.
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