Study a Verse

• It is a prejudice among smārta-brāhmaṇas that a widow must observe fasting on Ekādaśī but a woman who is sa-dhava — who has her husband — should not.
• It appears that before Lord Caitanya’s request, Śacīmātā, being sa-dhava, was not observing Ekādaśī.
• Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, introduced the system that a woman, even if not a widow, must observe the Ekādaśī day and must not touch any kind of grains, even those offered to the Deity of Viṣṇu.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

Wonder touched by grief. Learning, family duty, the loss of Jagannātha Miśra, and marriage create mixed feeling.

The mood of Ādi 15 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Ādi 15: The Lord’s Paugaṇḍa-līlā

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

He forbade His mother to take grains on the Ekādaśī day. He narrated a story that Viśvarūpa, after accepting the sannyāsa order, invited Him in a dream to accept sannyāsa also , but the Lord refused and was therefore sent back home.