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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.7
গৃহে দুই জন দেখি লঘুপদ–চিহ্ন ।
তাহে শোভে ধ্বজ, বজ, শঙ্খ, চক্র, মীন ॥ ৭ ॥
gṛhe dui jana dekhi laghupada-cihna
tāhe śobhe dhvaja, vajra, śaṅkha, cakra, mīna
When the Lord tried to walk, in His small footprints the specific marks of Lord Viṣṇu were visible, namely the flag, thunderbolt, conchshell, disc and fish.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
As the Lord tried to walk, His small footprints were visible.
Those footprints bore the specific marks of Lord Viṣṇu.
The marks were the flag, thunderbolt, conchshell, disc and fish.
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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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How do the marks of Lord Viṣṇu affect your understanding of these small footprints?
Read the five marks aloud once, then try to recall them without looking.
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