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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 18.71
আর দিন আইলা প্রভু দেখিতে ‘বৃন্দাবন’ ।
‘কালীয়-হ্রদে’ স্নান কৈলা আর প্রস্কন্দন ॥ ৭১ ॥
āra dina āilā prabhu dekhite ‘vṛndāvana’
‘kālīya-hrade’ snāna kailā āra praskandana
The next day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Vṛndāvana and took His bath at Kālīya Lake and Praskandana.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
The next day, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Vṛndāvana.
He took His bath at Kālīya Lake and Praskandana.
The purport notes that Kālīya-hrada is mentioned in the Bhakti-ratnākara.
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:
Seeing a great crowd in Mathurā, He moved His residence near Akrūra-ghāṭa, and from there He went every day to Vṛndāvana to see Kālīya-hrada, Dvādaśāditya-ghāṭa, Keśī-ghāṭa, Rāsa-sthalī, Cīra-ghāṭa and Āmli-talā. At Kālīya Lake, many people mistook a fisherman for Kṛṣṇa.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 18
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The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “vṛndāvana”
Concept links are an editorial study map; only the verse is the text itself.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Which places in this account of His visit to Vṛndāvana can you recall?
Read the verse aloud once, carefully saying the names Vṛndāvana, Kālīya Lake, and Praskandana.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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