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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.57
‘বিধেয়’ আগে কহি’ পাছে কহিলে ‘অনুবাদ’ ।
এই লাগি’ শ্লোকের অর্থ করিয়াছে বাধ ॥ ৫৭ ॥
‘vidheya’ āge kahi’ pāche kahile ‘anuvāda’
ei lāgi’ ślokera artha kariyāche bādha
“Because you have placed the known subject at the end and that which is unknown at the beginning, the composition is faulty, and the meaning of the words has become doubtful.
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The known subject has been placed at the end of the composition.
What is unknown has been placed at the beginning, making the composition faulty.
This arrangement makes the meaning of the words doubtful.
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:
When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death. Therefore at her request He later married His second wife, Viṣṇupriyā-devī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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