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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.29
হেনকালে দিগ্বিজয়ী তাঁহাই আইলা ।
গঙ্গারে বন্দন করি’ প্রভুরে মিলিলা ॥ ২৯ ॥
hena-kāle digvijayī tāhāṅi āilā
gaṅgāre vandana kari’ prabhure mililā
Coincidentally, Keśava Kāśmīrī Paṇḍita came there. While offering his prayers to mother Ganges, he met Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Keśava Kāśmīrī Paṇḍita coincidentally came there.
He was offering prayers to mother Ganges.
While offering those prayers, he met Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Grief and transformed pride. Lakṣmīdevī’s departure brings sorrow; Keśava Kāśmīrī’s pride yields to surrender.
The mood of Ādi 16 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:
This chapter also describes the Lord’s argument with Keśava Kāśmīrī, the celebrated scholar, and the Lord’s criticism of his prayer glorifying mother Ganges. In this prayer the Lord found five kinds of literary ornaments and five kinds of literary faults, thus defeating the paṇḍita.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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