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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 17.71
এই লীলা স্বগ্রন্থে রঘুনাথ-দাস ।
গৌরাঙ্গস্তবকল্পবৃক্ষে কৈরাছেন প্রকাশ ॥ ৭১ ॥
ei līlā sva-granthe raghunātha-dāsa
gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣe kairāchena prakāśa
Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī has fully described this pastime in his book Gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣa.
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Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī has fully described this pastime.
His description appears in his book Gaurāṅga-stava-kalpavṛkṣa.
The pastime concerns Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstatic tortoise-like transformation, described in the neighbouring verses.
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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