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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.22
শ্রীবাস পণ্ডিত-সঙ্গে চলিলা মালিনী ।
শিবানন্দ-সঙ্গে চলে তাঁহার গৃহিণী ॥ ২২ ॥
śrīvāsa paṇḍita-saṅge calilā mālinī
śivānanda-saṅge cale tāṅhāra gṛhiṇī
Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita also took his wife, Mālinī, and the wife of Śivānanda Sena also went with her husband.
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Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita took his wife with him.
His wife’s name was Mālinī.
The wife of Śivānanda Sena also went with her husband.
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:
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to go to Vṛndāvana, Rāmānanda Rāya and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya indirectly presented many obstructions. In due course of time, all the devotees of Bengal visited Jagannātha Purī for the third year.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
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