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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.10
সপ্তদ্বীপের লোক আর নবখণ্ডবাসী ।
দেব, গন্ধর্ব, কিন্নর মনুষ্য-বেশে আসি’ ॥ ১০ ॥
sapta-dvīpera loka āra nava-khaṇḍa-vāsī
deva, gandharva, kinnara manuṣya-veśe āsi’
People from all over the universe, including the seven islands, the nine khaṇḍas, the planets of the demigods, Gandharvaloka and Kinnaraloka, would go there in the forms of human beings.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
People came from all over the universe, including the seven islands and the nine khaṇḍas.
Visitors also came from the planets of the demigods, Gandharvaloka and Kinnaraloka.
They came in the forms of human beings. The gathering included people from far beyond this world.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 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:
The purport of this chapter is explained by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya as follows. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, wanted to explain direct meetings with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, meetings with those empowered by Him, and His āvirbhāva appearance.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does this description broaden your sense of who could come to see the Lord?
Read the translation slowly and notice the wide range of places from which the visitors came.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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