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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 Madhya 1.168
গৌড়েশ্বর যবন-রাজা প্রভাব শুনিঞা ।
কহিতে লাগিল কিছু বিস্মিত হঞা ॥ ১৬৮ ॥
gauḍeśvara yavana-rājā prabhāva śuniñā
kahite lāgila kichu vismita hañā
When the Muslim king of Bengal heard of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s influence in attracting innumerable people, he became very much astonished and began to speak as follows.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Muslim king of Bengal at that time was Nawab Hussain Shah Bādasāha.
He heard that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was attracting innumerable people.
The Lord’s influence greatly astonished the king and prompted him to speak.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What about the Lord’s influence caught the king’s attention?
Write one sentence describing what the king heard and how he responded.
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