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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.166
তবে সেই পাঠান চারি-জনেরে বাঁধিল ।
কাটিতে চাহে, গৌড়িয়া সব কাঁপিতে লাগিল ॥ ১৬৬ ॥
tabe sei pāṭhāna cāri-janere bāṅdhila
kāṭite cāhe, gauḍiyā saba kāṅpite lāgila
Thinking this, the Pāṭhāna soldiers arrested the four persons and decided to kill them. Because of this, the two Bengalis began to tremble.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The Pāṭhāna soldiers arrested the four persons and decided to kill them. The two Bengalis began to tremble.
Two of those arrested were Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and his assistant brāhmaṇa.
The other two were Rājaputa Kṛṣṇadāsa and the Sanoḍiyā brāhmaṇa, a devotee of Mādhavendra Purī.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Overwhelmed recognition. Seeing the places of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes evokes extraordinary remembrance and ecstasy.
The mood of Madhya 18 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:
Thus the soldiers arrested them. However, when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regained His senses, His associates were released.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the trembling of the two Bengalis help me recognize the fear they faced?
Read the four persons’ identities carefully, then pause to consider the danger described in the translation.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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