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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.274
এই আদি–লীলার কৈল সূত্র গণন ।
বিস্তারি বর্ণিল ইহা দাস বৃন্দাবন ॥ ২৭৪ ॥
ei ādi-līlāra kaila sūtra gaṇana
vistāri varṇilā ihā dāsa vṛndāvana
Thus I have summarized the incidents of the ādi-līlā. Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has described them elaborately [in his Caitanya-bhāgavata].
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The author has summarized the incidents of the ādi-līlā.
Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has described these incidents elaborately.
Those fuller descriptions are found in his Caitanya-bhāgavata.
Public courage and ecstatic joy. The saṅkīrtana movement confronts opposition and moves toward recognition and expansion.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
There is no need of mundane arguments in this connection, because mundane arguments are meaningless in regard to inconceivable potency. At the end of the seventeenth chapter, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, following in the footsteps of Śrīla Vyāsadeva, has summarized all the ādi-līlā pastimes separately.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
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Note that Caitanya-bhāgavata contains fuller descriptions of the incidents summarized here.
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