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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.79
মিশ্র কহে,—এই বড় অদ্ভুত কাহিনী ।
শিশুর শূন্যপদে কেনে নূপুরের ধ্বনি ॥ ৭৯ ॥
miśra kahe, — ei baḍa adbhuta kāhinī
śiśura śūnya-pade kene nūpurera dhvani
Jagannātha Miśra said, “This is a very wonderful incident. Why is there a sound of ankle bells from the bare feet of my child?”
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Jagannātha Miśra called the incident very wonderful.
His child’s feet were bare.
He wondered why the sound of ankle bells was coming from those bare feet.
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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Why did the child’s bare feet make the sound so wonderful to Jagannātha Miśra?
Today, read Jagannātha Miśra’s question aloud and pause over the contrast between bare feet and the sound of ankle bells.
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