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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 1.135
আক্ষিপ্তঃ কালসাম্যেন প্রবেশঃ স্যাৎ প্রবর্তকঃ ॥ ১৩৫ ॥
ākṣiptaḥ kāla-sāmyena
praveśaḥ syāt pravartakaḥ
“ ‘When the entrance of the actors is set in motion by the arrival of a suitable time, the entrance is called pravartaka.’
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Pravartaka is the name for a particular kind of entrance of the actors.
In this entrance, the arrival of a suitable time sets the actors’ entrance in motion.
The definition comes from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Nāṭaka-candrikā.
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:
Although he could not follow the Bengali devotees, after some time he also came to Jagannātha Purī, where he stayed with Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī composed an important verse beginning with the words priyaḥ so ’yam, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished it very much.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
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What makes an entrance pravartaka according to this definition?
Explain pravartaka in your own words, including the role of a suitable time.
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