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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 4.226
‘দানকেলিকৌমুদী’ আদি লক্ষগ্রন্থ কৈল ।
সেই সব গ্রন্থে ব্রজের রস বিচারিল ॥ ২২৬ ॥
‘dāna-keli-kaumudī’ ādi lakṣa-grantha kaila
sei saba granthe vrajera rasa vicārila
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī compiled 100,000 verses, beginning with the book Dāna-keli-kaumudī. In all these scriptures he elaborately explained the transcendental mellows of the activities of Vṛndāvana.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s writings, beginning with Dāna-keli-kaumudī, elaborately explain the transcendental mellows of the activities of Vṛndāvana.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura explains that lakṣa-grantha means 100,000 verses. In this count, copyists include both verses and prose sections of the Sanskrit works.
This does not mean that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī wrote 100,000 books. The Bhakti-ratnākara states that he wrote sixteen books.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Despair met with care. Sanātana’s wish to die is interrupted by the Lord’s protective insistence on his future service.
The mood of Antya 4 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:
In this way he completely retired and returned to Vṛndāvana to meet Sanātana Gosvāmī. After narrating these incidents, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has given a list of the main books of Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Jīva Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Bhāva & rasa · The language of sacred feeling
Transcendental devotional moods and relationships, discussed explicitly in Rāmānanda’s dialogue and the teachings on prema. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “mellows”
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”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the purport help me read the phrase “100,000 verses” more carefully?
Record the distinction in your notes: sixteen books, with 100,000 counted units including verses and prose sections.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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