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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 15.28
দৈবে এক দিন প্রভু পড়িয়া আসিতে ।
বল্লভাচার্যের কন্যা দেখে গঙ্গা–পথে ॥ ২৮ ॥
daive eka dina prabhu paḍiyā āsite
vallabhācāryera kanyā dekhe gaṅgā-pathe
One day when the Lord was coming back from school He accidentally saw the daughter of Vallabhācārya on the way to the Ganges.
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One day the Lord was returning from school.
He happened to see the daughter of Vallabhācārya.
This meeting took place on the way to the Ganges.
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:
When Jagannātha Miśra passed away, the Lord married the daughter of Vallabhācārya, whose name was Lakṣmī. All these events are summarized in this chapter.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 15
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