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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 10.36
পাতল মৃৎপাত্রে সন্ধানাদি ভরি’ ।
আর সব বস্তু ভরে বস্ত্রের কুথলী ॥ ৩৬ ॥
pātala mṛt-pātre sandhānādi bhari’
āra saba vastu bhare vastrera kuthalī
The condiments and similar items were put into thin earthen pots, and everything else was put into small cloth bags.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The condiments and similar items were put into thin earthen pots.
Everything else was put into small cloth bags.
Different kinds of items were packed in different kinds of containers.
Tender service. Food prepared and carried with love becomes a medium of intimate exchange.
The mood of Antya 10 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:
The food had been cooked by his sister, Damayantī, who then packed it in bags ( jhāli ). Thus the stock of food was generally known as rāghavera jhāli, “the bags of Rāghava . ” Makaradhvaja Kara, an inhabitant of Pānihāṭi who accompanied Rāghava Paṇḍita, was the secretary in charge of accounting for the rāghavera jhāli .Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 10
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I give the finishing steps of a task as much attention as the beginning?
Carefully pack or store one item today in a container suited to it.
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