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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.134
রায় কহে, — “কোন্ আমুখে পাত্র-সন্নিধান ?” রূপ কহে, — “কালসাম্যে ‘প্রবর্তক’ নাম” ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
rāya kahe, — “kon āmukhe pātra-sannidhāna?”
rūpa kahe, — “kāla-sāmye ‘pravartaka’ nāma”
Rāmānanda Rāya inquired, “How have you introduced the assembly of the players?”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Rāmānanda Rāya asked how Rūpa Gosvāmī had introduced the assembly of players.
Rūpa Gosvāmī explained that the players assemble at a suitable time.
He identified this arrangement by the heading pravartaka.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Recognition and encouragement. Rūpa’s devotional insight receives the Lord’s approval; even a dog receives mercy.
The mood of Antya 1 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:
One day Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and others went to the place of Haridāsa Ṭhākura and heard some of the verses Rūpa Gosvāmī had composed for his books Lalita-mādhava and Vidagdha-mādhava. After examining the manuscripts of these two books, Rāmānanda Rāya approved and appreciated them very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Rāmānanda Rāya’s question encourage you to notice about the play’s arrangement?
Write a brief study note: “Pravartaka concerns the players assembling at a suitable time.”
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