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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 1.35
বৃন্দাবনে নাটকের আরম্ভ করিলা ।
মঙ্গলাচরণ ‘নান্দী-শ্লোক’ তথাই লিখিলা ॥ ৩৫ ॥
vṛndāvane nāṭakera ārambha karilā
maṅgalācaraṇa ‘nāndī-śloka’ tathāi likhilā
In Vṛndāvana, Rūpa Gosvāmī began to write a drama. In particular, he composed the introductory verses to invoke good fortune.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
In Vṛndāvana, Rūpa Gosvāmī began writing a drama.
He composed introductory verses to invoke good fortune.
The purport introduces a quotation from the Nāṭaka-candrikā by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, but the quoted passage is not included here.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What might you learn from Rūpa Gosvāmī’s care in preparing the opening of his drama?
Before today’s study, pause and offer a short prayer for an auspicious beginning.
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