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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.132
নরহরি দাস আদি যত খণ্ডবাসী ।
শিবানন্দসেন-সঙ্গে মিলিলা সবে আসি’ ॥ ১৩২ ॥
narahari dāsa ādi yata khaṇḍa-vāsī
śivānanda-sena-saṅge mililā sabe āsi’
Eventually Narahari dāsa and other inhabitants of Khaṇḍa, along with Śivānanda Sena, all arrived, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met them.
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Narahari dāsa and other inhabitants of Khaṇḍa eventually arrived.
Śivānanda Sena also arrived with them.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu met these devotees.
Anticipation and hidden longing. The author previews later pastimes, including the inner Vraja mood expressed at Ratha-yātrā.
The mood of Madhya 1 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:
There is also a description of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s ecstasy that occurred when He recited the verse beginning yaḥ kaumāra-haraḥ, as well as a description of how that ecstasy was explained in the verse beginning priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ, by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
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