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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.10
সে সব শ্লোকের অর্থ, সে সব ‘বিকার’ ।
সে সব বর্ণিতে গ্রন্থ হয় অতি-বিস্তার ॥ ১০ ॥
se saba ślokera artha, se saba ‘vikāra’
se saba varṇite grantha haya ati-vistāra
To explain fully all those verses and all the transformations that took place in the Lord’s body would require a very large volume.
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The Lord’s explanations of the verses were extensive.
Transformations also took place in the Lord’s body.
Fully explaining both the verses and these bodily transformations would require a very large volume.
Desperate longing and relief. Mistaking the sea for Yamunā, the Lord enters it; devotees find and revive Him.
The mood of Antya 18 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:
As He floated in the sea, however, He was washed away to the Koṇārka temple, where a fisherman, thinking that the Lord’s body was a big fish, caught Him in his net and brought Him ashore. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was unconscious, and His body had become unusually transformed.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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