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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 16.96
আজি তাঁরে নিবেদিব, করি’ জপ–ধ্যান ।
শিশুদ্বারে কৈল মোরে এত অপমান ॥ ৯৬
āji tāṅre nivediba, kari’ japa-dhyāna
śiśu-dvāre kaila more eta apamāna
“I shall offer prayers and meditation to the goddess of learning,” the champion concluded, “and ask her why she has insulted me so greatly through this boy.”
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The champion decided to offer prayers to the goddess of learning.
He also resolved to meditate upon her.
He wanted to ask why she had insulted him so greatly through this boy.
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:
In this prayer the Lord found five kinds of literary ornaments and five kinds of literary faults, thus defeating the paṇḍita. Later the Kāśmīrī Paṇḍita, who was known to have been victorious all over the country, submitted himself to the goddess of learning, and by her order he met Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu on the morning of the next day and surrendered unto Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 16
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