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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 11.109
মহাপ্রভুর আলয়ে করিল গমন ।
এত মহাপ্রসাদ চাহি’ — কহ কি কারণ ॥ ১০৯ ॥
mahāprabhura ālaye karila gamana
eta mahā-prasāda cāhi’ — kaha ki kāraṇa
“Indeed, Vāṇīnātha has already gone to the residence of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and has taken a huge quantity of mahā-prasādam. Please let me know the reason for this.”
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Vāṇīnātha has already gone to the residence of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
He has taken a huge quantity of mahā-prasādam there.
The King asks to know the reason for this.
Communal anticipation. Arriving devotees, kīrtana, and longing to meet the Lord converge.
The mood of Madhya 11 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:
While Advaita Ācārya and the other devotees were coming to Jagannātha Purī, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Govinda, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s two personal assistants, went to receive all the devotees with garlands. From the roof of his palace, King Pratāparudra could see all the devotees arriving.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 11
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