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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 14.229
শুনি’প্রেমাবেশে নৃত্য করে শ্রীনিবাস ।
কক্ষতালি বাজায়, করে অট্ট-অট্ট হাস ॥ ২২৯ ॥
śuni’ premāveśe nṛtya kare śrīnivāsa
kakṣa-tāli bājāya, kare aṭṭa-aṭṭa hāsa
Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura then began to dance in ecstatic love. He vibrated sounds by slapping his armpits with the palms of his hands, and he laughed very loudly.
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Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura began to dance in ecstatic love.
He made sounds by slapping his armpits with the palms of his hands.
He also laughed very loudly as he expressed his ecstatic love.
Intimacy and ecstatic play. Mercy to Pratāparudra and discussion of the gopīs reveal deep relational sweetness.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
During that time, there was much talk about the pastimes of the gopīs. When the ratha was again being drawn and the chanting resumed, two devotees from Kulīna-grāma — Rāmānanda Vasu and Satyarāja Khān — were requested to bring silk ropes every year for the Ratha-yātrā ceremony.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 14
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In this verse: “ecstatic love”
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