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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.5
যৌবন–প্রবেশে অঙ্গের অঙ্গ বিভূষণ ।
দিব্য বস্ত্র, দিব্য বেশ, মাল্য–চন্দন ॥ ৫ ॥
yauvana-praveśe aṅgera aṅga vibhūṣaṇa
divya vastra, divya veśa, mālya-candana
As He entered His youth, the Lord decorated Himself with ornaments, dressed Himself in fine cloth, garlanded Himself with flowers and smeared Himself with sandalwood.
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As He entered His youth, the Lord decorated Himself with ornaments.
He dressed Himself in fine cloth and wore flower garlands.
He also smeared Himself with sandalwood.
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
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which detail of the Lord’s adornment draws my attention most?
Read the verse slowly and recall the ornaments, fine cloth, flowers and sandalwood described here.
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