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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.72
অতিদীর্ঘ শিথিল তনু-চর্ম নট্কায় ।
দূর পথ উঠাঞা ঘরে আনান না যায় ॥ ৭২ ॥
ati-dīrgha śithila tanu-carma naṭkāya
dūra patha uṭhāñā ghare ānāna nā yāya
The Lord’s body was stretched, and His skin was slack and hanging loose. To lift Him and take Him the long distance home would have been impossible.
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The Lord’s body was stretched, and His skin was slack and hanging loose.
Lifting Him and carrying Him the long distance home would have been impossible.
The devotees therefore faced a situation in which care had to begin where the Lord was lying.
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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