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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.31
ব্যাকরণ পড়াহ, নিমাঞি পণ্ডিত তোমার নাম ।
বাল্যশাস্ত্রে লোকে তোমার কহে গুণগ্রাম ॥ ৩১ ॥
vyākaraṇa paḍāha, nimāñi paṇḍita tomāra nāma
bālya-śāstre loke tomāra kahe guṇa-grāma
“I understand that You are a teacher of grammar,” he said, “and that Your name is Nimāi Paṇḍita. People speak very highly of Your teaching of beginners’ grammar.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanskrit students were expected to study grammar carefully for twelve years. Expertise in Sanskrit grammar opens all the śāstras to the student.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was famous for teaching grammar. Keśava Kāśmīrī acknowledged that people spoke highly of Nimāi Paṇḍita’s teaching of beginners.
Keśava Kāśmīrī was very proud of his literary career. He considered Nimāi Paṇḍita’s position as a grammar teacher not at all comparable to his own.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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:
During His kaiśora-līlā the Lord also sported in the water. He went to East Bengal to secure financial assistance, cultivate knowledge and introduce the saṅkīrtana movement, and there He met Tapana Miśra, whom He instructed about spiritual advancement and ordered to go to Vārāṇasī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do you value careful study of the basics, or regard it as beneath you?
Spend five minutes reviewing one basic grammar point instead of rushing past it.
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