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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 3.86
তুমি খেতে পার দশ-বিশ মানের অন্ন ।
আমি তাহা কাঁহা পাব দরিদ্র ব্রাহ্মণ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
tumi khete pāra daśa-viśa mānera anna
āmi tāhā kāṅhā pāba daridra brāhmaṇa
Advaita Ācārya accused Nityānanda Prabhu, saying, “You can eat ten to twenty mānas of rice. I am a poor brāhmaṇa. How shall I get so much rice?
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Advaita Ācārya says that Nityānanda Prabhu can eat ten to twenty mānas of rice.
The purport explains that one māna contains about forty kilos.
Describing Himself as a poor brāhmaṇa, Advaita Ācārya asks how He could obtain so much rice.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Advaita Prabhu asked Him to take His bath in the Ganges and took Him to His (Advaita’s) house. There all the Navadvīpa devotees, along with mother Śacīdevī, came to see Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 3
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