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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 3.46
চন্দনের অঙ্গদ–বালা, চন্দন–ভূষণ ।
নৃত্যকালে পরি’ করেন কৃষ্ণসংকীর্তন ॥ ৪৬ ॥
candanera aṅgada-bālā, candana-bhūṣaṇa
nṛtya-kāle pari’ karena kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana
He is decorated with sandalwood bangles and armlets and anointed with the pulp of sandalwood. He especially wears these decorations to dance in śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana.
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He is decorated with sandalwood bangles and armlets.
His body is anointed with the pulp of sandalwood.
He especially wears these decorations to dance in śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana.
Compassion and urgency. The holy name is offered for the age; divine love moves outward toward others.
The mood of Ādi 3 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 incarnation for this age especially preaches this process, but only Kṛṣṇa Himself can explain the confidential loving service performed in the four principal varieties of loving affairs between the Supreme Lord and His devotees. Lord Kṛṣṇa therefore personally appeared, with His plenary portions, as Lord Caitanya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Ādi 3
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