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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.285
মাধব-পুরীর শিষ্য ‘শ্রীরঙ্গ-পুরী’ নাম ।
সেই গ্রামে বিপ্রগৃহে করেন বিশ্রাম ॥ ২৮৫ ॥
mādhava-purīra śiṣya ‘śrī-raṅga-purī’ nāma
sei grāme vipra-gṛhe karena viśrāma
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received word that Śrī Raṅga Purī, one of the disciples of Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, was present in that village at the home of a brāhmaṇa.
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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu received word that Śrī Raṅga Purī was present in the village.
Śrī Raṅga Purī was one of the disciples of Śrī Mādhavendra Purī.
He was staying at the home of a brāhmaṇa.
Wonder and inclusion. Meetings across sacred places display the broad reach of devotional mercy.
The mood of Madhya 9 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:
At Pāṇḍarapura the Lord received news from Śrī Raṅga Purī that Śaṅkarāraṇya (Viśvarūpa) had disappeared there. He then went to the banks of the Kṛṣṇa-veṇvā River, where He collected from among the Vaiṣṇava brāhmaṇas a book written by Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura, Śrī Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
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