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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.40
তবে দিগ্বিজয়ী ব্যাখ্যার শ্লোক পুছিল ।
শত শ্লোকের এক শ্লোক প্রভু ত’ পড়িল ॥ ৪০ ॥
tabe digvijayī vyākhyāra śloka puchila
śata ślokera eka śloka prabhu ta’ paḍila
The Digvijayī, Keśava Kāśmīrī, inquired which verse He wanted explained. The Lord then recited one of the one hundred verses Keśava Kāśmīrī had composed.
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The Digvijayī, Keśava Kāśmīrī, asked which verse the Lord wanted explained.
The Lord responded by reciting one verse.
The verse He recited was one of the one hundred verses Keśava Kāśmīrī had composed.
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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