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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 15.17
আস্তে–ব্যস্তে পিতা–মাতা মুখে দিল পানি ।
সুস্থ হঞা কহে প্রভু অপূর্ব কাহিনী ॥ ১৭ ॥
āste-vyaste pitā-mātā mukhe dila pāni
sustha hañā kahe prabhu apūrva kāhinī
After His father and mother sprinkled water on His mouth with great haste, the Lord revived and said something wonderful they had never heard before.
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His father and mother hurriedly sprinkled water on His mouth.
The Lord revived after they sprinkled the water.
He then said something wonderful that His parents had never heard before.
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
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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 15
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