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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.55
‘ইহঁ মোরে কন্যা দিতে কর্যাছে অঙ্গীকার ।
এবে যে না দেন, পুছ ইঁহার ব্যবহার ॥’ ৫৫ ॥
‘iṅha more kanyā dite karyāche aṅgīkāra
ebe ye nā dena, pucha iṅhāra vyavahāra’
“This gentleman has promised to hand over his daughter to me, yet now he does not follow his promise. Please ask him about his behavior.”
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The young brāhmaṇa stated that the gentleman had promised him his daughter.
He said that the gentleman was now failing to follow that promise.
He asked the assembled people to question the gentleman about his behavior.
Faith vindicated. The Deity bears witness; anxiety over a broken promise becomes astonishment and relief.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
When the two brāhmaṇas returned to Vidyānagara, the younger brāhmaṇa raised the question of this marriage, but the elderly brāhmaṇa, due to obligations to his friends and wife, answered that he could not remember his promise. Because of this, the younger brāhmaṇa returned to Vṛndāvana and narrated the whole story to Gopālajī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 5
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