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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.71
ভূমিতে পড়ি’ আছে প্রভু দীর্ঘ সব কায় ।
জলে শ্বেত-তনু, বালু লাগিয়াছে গায় ॥ ৭১ ॥
bhūmite paḍi’ āche prabhu dīrgha saba kāya
jale śveta-tanu, vālu lāgiyāche gāya
The Lord was lying on the ground, His body elongated and bleached white by the water. He was covered from head to foot with sand.
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The Lord was lying on the ground with His body elongated.
The water had bleached His body white.
He was covered from head to foot with sand, which the devotees would carefully remove.
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 was about to seek a ghost charmer, he met Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and the other devotees on the beach, who had been looking everywhere for the Lord. After some inquiries, Svarūpa Dāmodara could understand that the fisherman had caught Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in his net.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 18
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