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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.206
শত শ্লোক কৈল এক দণ্ড না যাইতে ।
বৃহস্পতি তৈছে শ্লোক না পারে করিতে ॥ ২০৬ ॥
śata śloka kaila eka daṇḍa nā yāite
bṛhaspati taiche śloka nā pāre karite
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya composed one hundred verses in a very short time. Indeed, not even Bṛhaspati, the priest of the heavenly planets, could compose verses as quickly.
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Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya composed one hundred verses in a very short time.
Not even Bṛhaspati, the priest of the heavenly planets, could compose verses as quickly.
The book of these one hundred beautiful verses is named Suśloka-śataka.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
The Bhaṭṭācārya then recited one hundred verses in praise of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and offered his obeisances. After this, Gopīnātha Ācārya and all the others, having seen the wonderful potencies of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, became very joyful.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Write down the name Suśloka-śataka and its description: one hundred beautiful verses composed by Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.
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