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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 20.129
শিবানন্দের বালকে শ্লোক করাইলা ।
সিংহদ্বারে দ্বারী প্রভুরে কৃষ্ণ দেখাইলা ॥ ১২৯ ॥
śivānandera bālake śloka karāilā
siṁha-dvāre dvārī prabhure kṛṣṇa dekhāilā
It also describes how Śivānanda’s son composed a verse and how the doorkeeper of the Siṁha-dvāra showed Kṛṣṇa to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The chapter describes how Śivānanda’s son composed a verse.
It also recounts an event involving the doorkeeper of the Siṁha-dvāra.
The doorkeeper showed Kṛṣṇa to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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The mood of Antya 20 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:
For the twelve years Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu lived at Jagannātha Purī, He relished the taste of reciting such transcendental verses. Altogether the Lord was present in this mortal world for forty-eight years.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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