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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 16.32
ব্যাকরণ–মধ্যে, জানি, পড়াহ কলাপ ।
শুনিলুঁ ফাঁকিতে তোমার শিষ্যের সংলাপ ॥ ৩২ ॥
vyākaraṇa-madhye, jāni, paḍāha kalāpa
śuniluṅ phāṅkite tomāra śiṣyera saṁlāpa
“I understand that You teach Kalāpa-vyākaraṇa. I have heard that Your students are very expert in the word jugglery of this grammar.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Sanskrit grammar has several schools, including the systems of Pāṇini and the Kalāpa and Kaumudī grammars. Nimāi Paṇḍita’s students became expert in complicated grammar.
By changing root meanings and juggling grammatical rules, a grammarian can interpret the śāstras in many ways. Such manipulation can sometimes completely change a sentence’s meaning.
Keśava Kāśmīrī indirectly taunted Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu by implying that this grammatical skill required little expertise. From the beginning, he wanted to bluff the Lord before their discussion of the śāstras.
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:
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. While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring East Bengal, His wife, Lakṣmīdevī, was bitten by a serpent or by the serpent of separation, and thus she left this world.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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In this verse: “discussion”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do you use skill with words to understand meaning, or to make yourself appear superior?
When explaining a sentence today, state its meaning plainly rather than using clever wording to impress someone.
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