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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 20.73
বৃন্দাবন-দাস প্রথম যে লীলা বর্ণিল ।
সেইসব লীলার আমি সূত্রমাত্র কৈল ॥ ৭৩ ॥
vṛndāvana-dāsa prathama ye līlā varṇila
sei-saba līlāra āmi sūtra-mātra kaila
Whatever pastimes Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura has first described I have merely summarized.
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Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura had already described certain pastimes.
The author has merely summarized those previously described pastimes.
He clearly acknowledges Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura’s earlier account rather than presenting those descriptions as his own.
Unconditional devotion. Eight prayers move from cleansing the heart to love that endures even without reciprocation.
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:
The following summary of the twentieth chapter is given by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in his Amṛta-pravāha-bhāṣya. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed His nights tasting the meaning of the Śikṣāṣṭaka prayers in the company of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and Rāmānanda Rāya.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 20
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
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