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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 20.388
রাত্রি-দিনে হয় ষষ্টিদণ্ড-পরিমাণ ।
তিনসহস্র ছয়শত ‘পল’ তার মান ॥ ৩৮৮ ॥
rātri-dine haya ṣaṣṭi-daṇḍa-parimāṇa
tina-sahasra chaya-śata ‘pala’ tāra māna
“According to Vedic astronomical calculations, the rotation of the sun consists of sixty daṇḍas, and it is divided into thirty-six hundred palas.
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The verse presents a measurement according to Vedic astronomical calculations.
The rotation of the sun consists of sixty daṇḍas.
That rotation is divided into thirty-six hundred palas.
Humility and restored identity. A seeker relinquishes status, asks fundamental questions, and receives sambandha knowledge.
The mood of Madhya 20 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:
While discussing the Absolute Truth, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Lord analyzed Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, as well as the expansions of the Lord called svayaṁ-rūpa, tad-ekātma and āveśa, which are divided into various branches known as vaibhava and prābhava. Thus the Lord described the many forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 20
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How do the two units help you see the same rotation in larger and smaller divisions?
Write a study note: one rotation consists of sixty daṇḍas, or thirty-six hundred palas.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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