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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 14.10
স্বরূপ — ‘সূত্রকর্তা’, রঘুনাথ — ‘বৃত্তিকার’ ।
তার বাহুল্য বর্ণি — পাঁজি-টীকা-ব্যবহার ॥ ১০ ॥
svarūpa — ‘sūtra-kartā’, raghunātha — ‘vṛttikāra’
tāra bāhulya varṇi — pāṅji-ṭīkā-vyavahāra
Svarūpa Dāmodara wrote short notes, whereas Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī wrote elaborate descriptions. I shall now describe Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities more elaborately, as if fluffing out compressed cotton.
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Svarūpa Dāmodara wrote short notes, while Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī wrote elaborate descriptions.
The author will describe Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities more elaborately, like fluffing out compressed cotton.
Pāṅji-ṭīkā means further explanations of a subject. The cotton comparison illustrates this process of fuller explanation.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Intense yearning. Darśana, dreams, and visions of Vraja bring overwhelming separation.
The mood of Antya 14 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa resulted in highly elevated transcendental madness. When He was standing near the Garuḍa-stambha and praying to Lord Jagannātha, a woman from Orissa put her foot on the Lord’s shoulder in her great eagerness to see Lord Jagannātha.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 14
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