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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 9.325
রায়ের আনন্দ হৈল পুস্তক পাইয়া ।
প্রভু-সহ আস্বাদিল, রাখিল লিখিয়া ॥ ৩২৫ ॥
rāyera ānanda haila pustaka pāiyā
prabhu-saha āsvādila, rākhila likhiyā
Rāmānanda Rāya was very happy to receive these books. He tasted their contents along with the Lord and made a copy of each.
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Rāmānanda Rāya was very happy to receive these books.
He tasted their contents along with the Lord.
He made a copy of each book.
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:
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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