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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 16.84
এইমত মহাপ্রভুর চারি বৎসর গেল ।
দক্ষিণ যাঞা আসিতে দুই বৎসর লাগিল ॥ ৮৪ ॥
ei-mata mahāprabhura cāri vatsara gela
dakṣiṇa yāñā āsite dui vatsara lāgila
Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed four years. He spent the first two years on His tour in South India.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed four years in this way.
He spent the first two years touring South India.
The South India tour occupied two of the four years mentioned.
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:
Caitanya Mahāprabhu forbade Nityānanda to visit Nīlācala every year. Questioned by the inhabitants of Kulīna-grāma, Caitanya Mahāprabhu again repeated the symptoms of a Vaiṣṇava.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 16
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