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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.199
‘মন্ত্রেশ্বর’-দুষ্টনদে পার করাইল ।
‘পিছল্দা’ পর্যন্ত সেই যবন আইল ॥ ১৯৯ ॥
‘mantreśvara’-duṣṭa-nade pāra karāila
‘pichaldā’ paryanta sei yavana āila
The Muslim governor accompanied Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu past Mantreśvara. This place was very dangerous due to pirates. He took the Lord to a place named Pichaldā, which was near Mantreśvara.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Muslim governor accompanied Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu past Mantreśvara, a place dangerous due to pirates.
Mantreśvara was the very wide mouth of the Ganges near present-day Diamond Harbour. The boat passed through the Ganges into the Rūpa-nārāyaṇa River.
The governor accompanied the Lord as far as Pichaldā. This village was very close to Mantreśvara.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Yearning and deferral. Attempts, delays, meetings, and farewells heighten the desire to reach Vraja.
The mood of Madhya 16 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu requested Gadādhara Paṇḍita to return to Nīlācala, Jagannātha Purī, but he did not abide by this order. From Kaṭaka (Cuttack), Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu again requested Gadādhara Paṇḍita to return to Nīlācala, and He bade farewell to Rāmānanda Rāya from Bhadraka.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
What do you notice about the governor’s care in accompanying the Lord through a dangerous place?
Today, offer to accompany someone who needs help making a journey safely.
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