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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.12
সিংহদ্বার-দক্ষিণে আছে তৈলঙ্গী-গাভীগণ ।
তাঁহা যাই’ পড়িলা প্রভু হঞা অচেতন ॥ ১২ ॥
siṁha-dvāra-dakṣiṇe āche tailaṅgī-gābhī-gaṇa
tāhāṅ yāi’ paḍilā prabhu hañā acetana
He went to a cow shed on the southern side of the Siṁha-dvāra. There the Lord fell down unconscious among cows from the district of Tailaṅga.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to a cow shed on the southern side of the Siṁha-dvāra.
There He fell down unconscious among the cows.
The cows were from the district of Tailaṅga; this scene followed His departure in great ecstasy.
Inconceivable ecstatic absorption. The Lord’s overwhelming love manifests extraordinary bodily changes.
The mood of Antya 17 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the seventeenth chapter in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Absorbed in transcendental ecstasy, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went out one night without opening the doors to His room. After crossing over three walls, He fell down among some cows belonging to the district of Tailaṅga. There He remained unconscious, assuming the aspect of a tortoise.Back to this verse in Antya 17
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