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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 9.24
সেই রাজপুত্রের স্বভাব, — গ্রীবা ফিরায় ।
ঊর্ধ্বমুখে বারবার ইতি-উতি চায় ॥ ২৪ ॥
sei rāja-putrera svabhāva, — grīvā phirāya
ūrdhva-mukhe bāra-bāra iti-uti cāya
“That prince had a personal idiosyncrasy of turning his neck and facing the sky, looking here and there again and again.
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Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The prince had a distinctive personal mannerism.
He would turn his neck and face the sky.
He repeatedly looked here and there; this verse describes that habit without explaining its cause.
Fear turned to relief. A threatened execution ends in rescue and restored possibility.
The mood of Antya 9 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
Śrīla Prabhupāda's summary of this chapter:
The ninth chapter is summarized as follows. Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka, the son of Bhavānanda Rāya, was engaged in the service of the government, but he misappropriated some funds from the treasury. Therefore the baḍa-jānā, the eldest son of King Pratāparudra, ordered that he be punished by death. Thus Gopīnātha Paṭṭanāyaka was raised on the cāṅga to be killed, but by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu he was delivered. Moreover, he was even promoted to a higher post.Back to this verse in Antya 9
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