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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 7.151
এত ত’ কহিল প্রভুর প্রথম গমন ।
কূর্ম-দরশন, বাসুদেব-বিমোচন ॥ ১৫১ ॥
ei ta’ kahila prabhura prathama gamana
kūrma-daraśana, vāsudeva-vimocana
Thus I end my description of the beginning of the tour of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, His visiting the temple of Kūrma and His liberating the leper brāhmaṇa Vāsudeva.
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The author closes his description of the beginning of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s tour.
This account includes the Lord’s visit to the temple of Kūrma.
It also describes His liberating Vāsudeva, the brāhmaṇa who had leprosy.
Expansive compassion. The Lord carries nāma and mercy from village to village, including deliverance of Vāsudeva.
The mood of Madhya 7 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:
While there, He bestowed His causeless mercy upon a brāhmaṇa called Kūrma and cured another brāhmaṇa, named Vāsudeva, who was suffering from leprosy. After curing this brāhmaṇa leper, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received the title Vāsudevāmṛta-prada, meaning “one who delivered nectar to the leper Vāsudeva.”Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 7
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