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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.39
কলার পাত উপরে থুইল ওড়–ফুল ।
হরিদ্রা, সিন্দুর আর রক্তচন্দন, তণ্ডুল ॥ ৩৯ ॥
kalāra pāta upare thuila oḍa-phula
haridrā, sindūra āra rakta-candana, taṇḍula
On the upper portion of a plantain leaf he placed such paraphernalia for worship as oḍa-phula, turmeric, vermilion, red sandalwood and rice.
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The articles were placed on the upper portion of a plantain leaf.
They included oḍa-phula, turmeric and vermilion.
Red sandalwood and rice were also among the paraphernalia for worship.
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:
In this chapter we shall find descriptions of the mango distribution festival and Lord Caitanya’s discourses with Chand Kazi. Finally, the chapter shows that the same son of mother Yaśodā, Lord Kṛṣṇa, tasted four transcendental mellows of devotional service in His form of Śacīnandana, the son of mother Śacī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 17
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