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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.13
সহস্র-বদনে যবে কহয়ে ‘অনন্ত’ ।
একদিনের লীলার তবু নাহি পায় অন্ত ॥ ১৩ ॥
sahasra-vadane yabe kahaye ‘ananta’
eka-dinera līlāra tabu nāhi pāya anta
If Ananta, with His one thousand hoods, tried to describe even one day’s pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He would find them impossible to describe fully.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Ananta has one thousand hoods.
Even if He tried to describe just one day’s pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He could not describe them fully.
This comparison emphasizes how much even a single day contains beyond a complete telling.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What does Ananta’s inability to describe even one day fully invite you to appreciate?
Pause over the words “one day’s pastimes” and consider them alongside Ananta’s one thousand hoods.
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