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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 18.73
আর্দ্র কৌপীন দূর করি’ শুষ্ক পরাঞা ।
বহির্বাসে শোয়াইলা বালুকা ছাড়াঞা ॥ ৭৩ ॥
ārdra kaupīna dūra kari’ śuṣka parāñā
bahirvāse śoyāilā vālukā chāḍāñā
The devotees removed His wet undergarment and replaced it with a dry one. Then, laying the Lord on an outer cloth, they cleaned the sand from His body.
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The devotees removed the Lord’s wet undergarment and replaced it with a dry one.
They laid the Lord on an outer cloth.
They cleaned the sand from His body, attending carefully to His immediate condition.
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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Perform one simple act of care today, such as providing a clean cloth or helping clean something that is needed.
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