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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.166
গো–অঙ্গে যত লোম, তত সহস্র বৎসর ।
গোবধী রৌরব–মধ্যে পচে নিরন্তর ॥ ১৬৬ ॥
go-aṅge yata loma, tata sahasra vatsara
go-vadhī raurava-madhye pace nirantara
“Cow-killers are condemned to rot in hellish life for as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the body of the cow.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The verse strongly condemns cow-killing.
It describes the consequence as suffering in hellish life.
The stated duration is as many thousands of years as there are hairs on the cow’s body.
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:
Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī has the highest ecstatic love. When Kṛṣṇa in His form of Nārāyaṇa saw Rādhārāṇī, He could not keep His position as Nārāyaṇa and again assumed the form of Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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How does this warning challenge me to take harm to cows seriously?
Write one sentence explaining why this verse presents cow-killing as a grave act.
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