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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.38
রসামৃতসিন্ধু, আর বিদগ্ধমাধব ।
উজ্জ্বলনীলমণি, আর ললিতমাধব ॥ ৩৮ ॥
rasāmṛta-sindhu, āra vidagdha-mādhava
ujjvala-nīlamaṇi, āra lalita-mādhava
The books compiled by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī include the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Vidagdha-mādhava, Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi and Lalita-mādhava.
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Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī compiled Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu.
Vidagdha-mādhava and Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi are also among his books.
Lalita-mādhava completes the four titles named in this translation.
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:
All of these are described in brief. 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.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.
Which of these four titles can I now recognize as a work of Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī?
Copy the four book titles once, paying attention to their spellings.
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