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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 5.68
তবু এই বিপ্র মোরে কহে বার বার ।
তোরে কন্যা দিলুঁ, তুমি করহ স্বীকার ॥ ৬৮ ॥
tabu ei vipra more kahe bāra bāra
tore kanyā diluṅ, tumi karaha svīkāra
“Still this brāhmaṇa insisted. Again and again he asked me to accept his proposal, saying, ‘I have given you my daughter. Please accept her.’
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The brāhmaṇa continued to insist on his proposal.
Again and again, he asked the speaker to accept it.
He said, “I have given you my daughter,” and followed this with a request to accept her.
Faith vindicated. The Deity bears witness; anxiety over a broken promise becomes astonishment and relief.
The mood of Madhya 5 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:
Because of this, the younger brāhmaṇa returned to Vṛndāvana and narrated the whole story to Gopālajī. Thus Gopālajī, being obliged by the young man’s devotional service, accompanied him to southern India.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 5
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