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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 24.68
অপি-শব্দে মুখ্য অর্থ সাত বিখ্যাত ॥ ৬৮ ॥
api-śabde mukhya artha sāta vikhyāta
“There are seven chief meanings of the word ‘api.’ They are as follows.
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The word ‘api’ has seven chief meanings.
The next verse lists possibility, question, doubt, and censure among them.
The remaining meanings are aggregation, appropriate application of things, and extravagance.
Intellectual wonder humbled. Many explanations converge on the attractiveness of devotion; a hunter’s heart is transformed.
The mood of Madhya 24 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:
He analyzed all the words and described each word with its different connotations. Adding the words ca and api, He described all the different meanings of the verse.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 24
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How does knowing that ‘api’ has several meanings encourage you to read carefully?
Read the next verse and say the seven meanings of ‘api’ aloud once.
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