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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.182
এই চারি মিলি’ তোমায় ধুতুরা খাওয়াঞা ।
তোমার ধন লৈল তোমায় পাগল করিয়া ॥ ১৮২ ॥
ei cāri mili’ tomāya dhuturā khāoyāñā
tomāra dhana laila tomāya pāgala kariyā
“These rogues have made You take dhuturā. Having made You mad, they have taken all Your possessions.”
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The soldiers alleged that the four persons had made the Lord take dhuturā.
They claimed that this had made Him mad.
They also accused the four persons of taking all His possessions.
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:
Some Pāṭhāna soldiers who were passing through saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and falsely concluded that the Lord’s associates, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya and others, had killed the Lord with a poison named dhuturā and were taking His wealth. Thus the soldiers arrested them.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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List the three claims in this verse, marking each as an accusation made by the soldiers.
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