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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Antya-līlā · Chapter 1: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Second Meeting with the Lord
Antya 1.144Antya 1.146

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.145

অগ্রে বীক্ষ্য শিখণ্ডখণ্ডমচিরাদুৎকম্পমালম্বতে গুঞ্জানাঞ্চ বিলোকনান্মুহুরসৌ সাস্রং পরিক্রোশতি ।

নো জানে জনয়ন্নপূর্বনটনক্রীড়া-চমৎকারিতাং ।

বালায়াঃ কিল চিত্তভূমিমবিশৎ কোঽয়ং নবীনগ্রহঃ ॥ ১৪৫ ॥

agre vīkṣya śikhaṇḍa-khaṇḍam acirād utkampam ālambate

guñjānāṁ ca vilokanān muhur asau sāsraṁ parikrośati

no jāne janayann apūrva-naṭana-krīḍā-camatkāritāṁ

bālāyāḥ kila citta-bhūmim aviśat ko ’yaṁ navīna-grahaḥ

Translation

“ ‘Upon seeing peacock feathers in front of Her, this girl suddenly begins trembling. When She sometimes sees a necklace of guñjā [small conchshells], She sheds tears and cries loudly. I do not know what kind of new ecstatic influence has entered the heart of this poor girl. It has imbued Her with the dancing attitude of a player creating wonderful, unprecedented dances on a stage.’

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Extraordinary Ecstasy Appears in Visible Signs

  1. 1

    Seeing peacock feathers makes the girl suddenly tremble. Seeing a necklace of guñjā makes Her shed tears and cry loudly.

  2. 2

    The speaker wonders what new ecstatic influence has entered Her heart. Her movements are compared to wonderful, unprecedented dances on a stage.

  3. 3

    The purport identifies the speaker as Mukharā, a friend of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s grandmother. She is speaking with Paurṇamāsī, the grandmother of Madhumaṅgala.

Key points from the purport
  • This verse (Vidagdha-mādhava 2.15) is spoken by Mukharā, a friend of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s grandmother, in a conversation with Paurṇamāsī, the grandmother of Madhumaṅgala.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Antya 1: Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Second Meeting with the Lord

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī composed an important verse beginning with the words priyaḥ so ’yam, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu relished it very much. 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.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 1
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. agrein front
  2. vīkṣyaseeing
  3. śikhaṇḍa-khaṇḍamsome peacock feathers
  4. acirātall of a sudden
  5. utkampamtrembling of the heart and body
  6. ālambatetakes to
  7. guñjānāmof a garland of guñjā (small conchshells)
  8. caalso
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does Mukharā’s description communicate wonder at these extraordinary symptoms?

Practice

Note the two objects mentioned and the response each brings about.

Live this todayExtraordinary Ecstasy Appears in Visible SignsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.

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