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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 17.6
বিদ্যার ঔদ্ধত্যে কাঁহো না করে গণন ।
সকল পণ্ডিত জিনি’ করে অধ্যাপন ॥ ৬ ॥
vidyāra auddhatye kāhoṅ nā kare gaṇana
sakala paṇḍita jini’ kare adhyāpana
By dint of pride in His education, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, not caring for anyone else, defeated all kinds of learned scholars while executing His studies.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu displayed pride in His education.
While executing His studies, He did not care for anyone else.
He defeated all kinds of learned scholars.
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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