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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.13
প্রথমে যড়্ভুজ তাঁরে দেখাইল ঈশ্বর ।
শঙ্খচক্রগদাপদ্ম–শার্ঙ্গবেণুধর ॥ ১৩ ॥
prathame ṣaḍ-bhuja tāṅre dekhāila īśvara
śaṅkha-cakra-gadā-padma-śārṅga-veṇu-dhara
One day Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu a six-armed form bearing a conchshell, disc, club, lotus flower, bow and flute.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited a six-armed form to Lord Nityānanda Prabhu.
In this form, He bore a conchshell, disc, club, and lotus flower.
He also bore a bow and flute.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
The mood of Ādi 17 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:
The seventeenth chapter, as summarized by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya, describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pastimes from His sixteenth year until the time He accepted the renounced order of life. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has already vividly described these pastimes in the Caitanya-bhāgavata; therefore Kṛṣṇa dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describes them only briefly.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which details of the Lord’s six-armed form can I recall?
Read the description slowly, then name the six objects the Lord bore.
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