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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 1.61
শ্লোক করি’ এক তালপত্রেতে লিখিয়া ।
আপন বাসার চালে রাখিল গুঞ্জিয়া ॥ ৬১ ॥
śloka kari’ eka tāla-patrete likhiyā
āpana vāsāra cāle rākhila guñjiyā
After composing this verse, Rūpa Gosvāmī wrote it on a palm leaf and put it on the roof of the thatched house in which he was living.
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Rūpa Gosvāmī composed a verse.
He wrote the verse on a palm leaf.
He placed the palm leaf on the roof of the thatched house where he lived.
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:
Because he wrote that verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was specifically blessed by the Lord. There is also a description of the many books written by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 1
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