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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.321
দুই জনে প্রেমাবেশে করেন ক্রন্দন ।
প্রেমানন্দে শিথিল হৈল দুঁহাকার মন ॥ ৩২১ ॥
dui jane premāveśe karena krandana
premānande śithila haila duṅhākāra mana
In great ecstatic love they both began to cry, and thus their minds were slackened.
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They both experienced great ecstatic love.
They both began to cry; these were tears of love.
Their minds were slackened as they cried in that ecstatic love.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
He entered Daṇḍakāraṇya and liberated seven palm trees. From there He visited a place known as Pampā-sarovara and visited Pañcavaṭī, Nāsika, Brahmagiri and also the source of the Godāvarī River, Kuśāvarta.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 9
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