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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.70
সুন্দর শরীর যৈছে ভূষণে ভূষিত ।
এক শ্বেতকুষ্ঠে যৈছে করয়ে বিগীত ॥৭০ ॥
sundara śarīra yaiche bhūṣaṇe bhūṣita
eka śveta-kuṣṭhe yaiche karaye vigīta
“One’s beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The translation describes a beautiful body decorated with jewels.
In this comparison, one spot of white leprosy spoils the body's beauty despite its decorations.
The purport introduces the great sage Bharata Muni as an authority on poetic metaphor whose opinion follows.
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:
Therefore at her request He later married His second wife, Viṣṇupriyā-devī. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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