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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 15.31
বিস্তারিয়া বর্ণিলা তাহা বৃন্দাবন–দাস ।
এই ত’ পৌগণ্ড–লীলার সূত্র–প্রকাশ ॥ ৩১ ॥
vistāriyā varṇilā tāhā vṛndāvana-dāsa
ei ta’ paugaṇḍa-līlāra sūtra-prakāśa
Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has elaborately described all these pastimes of the Lord’s early age. What I have given is but a condensed presentation of the same pastimes.
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Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura elaborately described the Lord’s early pastimes.
The author acknowledges that detailed account.
He explains that his own presentation condenses those same pastimes.
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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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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