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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 1.186
“পদানি ত্বগতার্থানি তদর্থগতয়ে নরাঃ ।
যোজয়ন্তি পদৈরন্যৈঃ স উদঘাত্যক উচ্যতে ।।” ১৮৬ ।। ॥ ১৮৬ ॥
padāni tv agatārthāni
tad-artha-gataye narāḥ
yojayanti padair anyaiḥ
sa udghātyaka ucyate
“ ‘To explain an unclear word, men generally join it with other words. Such an attempt is called udghātyaka.’”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
An unclear word can be explained by joining it with other words.
The verse calls this attempt at clarification udghātyaka.
The purport identifies the definition as a quotation from the Sāhitya-darpaṇa (6.289).
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:
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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Choose one unclear word in today’s reading and reread it together with the words around it.
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