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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.64
‘শিবপত্নীর ভর্তা’ ইহা শুনিতে বিরুদ্ধ ।
‘বিরুদ্ধমতিকৃৎ’ শব্দ শাস্ত্রে নহে শুদ্ধ ॥ ৬৪ ॥
‘śiva-patnīra bhartā’ ihā śunite viruddha
‘viruddha-mati-kṛt’ śabda śāstre nahe śuddha
“It is contradictory to hear that Lord Śiva’s wife has another husband. The use of such words in literature creates the fault called viruddha-mati-kṛt.
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It is contradictory to hear that Lord Śiva's wife has another husband.
Words that suggest this create a fault in literature.
This fault is called viruddha-mati-kṛt.
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:
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. When the Lord returned home, He saw that His mother was overwhelmed with grief because of Lakṣmīdevī’s death.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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