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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.173
কৃষ্ণদাস কহে, — আমার ঘর এই গ্রামে ।
দুইশত তুর্কী আছে, শতেক কামানে ॥ ১৭৩ ॥
kṛṣṇadāsa kahe, — āmāra ghara ei grāme
dui-śata turkī āche, śateka kāmāne
Rājaputa Kṛṣṇadāsa said, “I have my home here, and I also have about two hundred Turkish soldiers and about one hundred cannons.
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Rājaputa Kṛṣṇadāsa says that his home is nearby.
He states that he has about two hundred Turkish soldiers.
He also states that he has about one hundred cannons.
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
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What resources does Rājaputa Kṛṣṇadāsa name in his reply?
Read his reply once more and identify the three things he says he has.
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