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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.12
পূর্বে যেই দেখাঞাছি দিগ্দরশন ।
তৈছে জানিহ ‘বিকার’ ‘প্রলাপ’ বর্ণন ॥ ১২ ॥
pūrve yei dekhāñāchi dig-daraśana
taiche jāniha ‘vikāra’ ‘pralāpa’ varṇana
As I have previously indicated, I am describing the mad speeches and bodily transformations of the Lord only in brief.
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The author reminds the reader that he has already explained the limits of his account.
He describes the Lord’s “mad speeches” and bodily transformations.
These descriptions are only brief, rather than a full record of the Lord’s pastimes.
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:
Mistaking the sea for the Yamunā River, He jumped into it, hoping to see the water pastimes Kṛṣṇa enjoyed with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and the other gopīs. 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.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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