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Read one verse of Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta with its Bengali, transliteration, word meanings, translation and study points.
Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 4.61
পঞ্চগব্য, পঞ্চামৃতে স্নান করাঞা ।
মহাস্নান করাইল শত ঘট দিঞা ॥ ৬১ ॥
pañca-gavya, pañcāmṛte snāna karāñā
mahā-snāna karāila śata ghaṭa diñā
After the first bathing, further bathings were conducted with pañca-gavya and then with pañcāmṛta. Then the mahā-snāna was performed with ghee and water, which had been brought in one hundred pots.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
After the first bathing came bathings with pañca-gavya and pañcāmṛta. The mahā-snāna followed with ghee and water brought in one hundred pots.
Pañca-gavya consists of milk, yogurt, ghee, cow urine and cow dung. Their use in bathing the Deity shows how important the cow is.
Pañcāmṛta consists of five kinds of nectar: yogurt, milk, ghee, honey and sugar. Most of its ingredients come from the cow; sugar and honey make it more palatable.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Selfless service and longing. Gopāla’s requests, Gopīnātha’s mercy, and Mādhavendra Purī’s devotion deepen the theme of longing.
The mood of Madhya 4 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:
One night while in Govardhana, Mādhavendra Purī dreamed that the Gopāla Deity was within the forest. The next morning he invited his neighborhood friends to accompany him to excavate the Deity from the jungle.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 4
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How does the cow’s contribution to these preparations deepen your appreciation of its importance?
Write down the five ingredients of pañcāmṛta and mark the three that come from the cow.
Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.
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