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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 3: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Stay at the House of Advaita Ācārya
Madhya 3.46Madhya 3.48

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.47

কোমল নিম্বপত্র সহ ভাজা বার্তাকী ।

পটোল-ফুলবড়ি-ভাজা, কুষ্মাণ্ড-মানচাকি ॥ ৪৭ ॥

komala nimba-patra saha bhājā vārtākī

paṭola-phula-baḍi-bhājā, kuṣmāṇḍa-mānacāki

Translation

Amongst the various vegetables were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. The fruit known as paṭola was fried with phulabaḍi, a kind of dhal preparation first mashed and then dried in the sun. There was also a preparation known as kuṣmāṇḍa-mānacāki.

Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.io
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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Preserving These Nice Preparations

  1. 1

    Newly grown nimba leaves were fried with eggplant. Paṭola was fried with phulabaḍi, a dhal preparation first mashed and then dried in the sun.

  2. 2

    There was also a preparation called kuṣmāṇḍa-mānacāki.

  3. 3

    The purport requests cookbook editors to include all these nice preparations described by the experienced author Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī.

Key points from the purport
  • We request our editors of cookbooks to add all these nice preparations described by the experienced author Śrīla Kavirāja Gosvāmī.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Reunion and heartbreaking parting. After sannyāsa, mother Śacī and the devotees reunite with Him before consenting to separation.

The mood of Madhya 3 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Further reading

Madhya 3: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Stay at the House of Advaita Ācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was induced to believe that the river Ganges was the Yamunā. When He was worshiping the sacred river, Advaita Prabhu arrived in a boat.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. komalanewly grown
  2. nimba-patranimba leaves
  3. sahawith
  4. bhājāfried
  5. vārtākīeggplant
  6. paṭolawith paṭola fruit
  7. phula-baḍia preparation of dhal
  8. bhājāfried
  9. kuṣmāṇḍasquashes
  10. mānacākithe food called mānacāki.
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

Why might it be valuable to preserve these preparations in cookbooks?

Practice

Copy the name and description of one preparation from this verse into your cooking notes.

Live this todayPreserving These Nice PreparationsThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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