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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 14.8

দেখিয়া দোঁহার চিত্তে জন্মিল বিস্ময় ।

কার পদচিহ্ন ঘরে, না পায় নিশ্চয় ॥ ৮ ॥

dekhiyā doṅhāra citte janmila vismaya

kāra pada-cihna ghare, nā pāya niścaya

Translation

Seeing all these marks, neither His father nor His mother could understand whose footprints they were. Thus struck with wonder, they could not understand how those marks could be possible in their home.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

His Parents Wonder at the Footprints

  1. 1

    Both His father and His mother saw the marks in the footprints.

  2. 2

    Neither parent could understand whose footprints they were.

  3. 3

    They were struck with wonder and could not understand how such marks were possible in their home.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Ādi 14: Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes

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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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. dekhiyāseeing all these marks
  2. doṅhāraof the parents, Śacīmātā and Jagannātha Miśra
  3. cittein their hearts
  4. janmilathere was
  5. vismayawonder
  6. kārawhose
  7. pada-cihnafootprints
  8. ghareat home
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

What stands out to you about the parents’ wonder at the unexplained footprints?

Practice

Reread the translation slowly, pausing to consider the parents’ wonder at seeing these marks in their home.

Live this todayHis Parents Wonder at the FootprintsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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