Text 138]
Rūpa Gosvāmī's Meeting with the Lord
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TRANSLATION
Rāmānanda Rāya said, "Please recite the prarocanā portion so that I may hear and examine it." Śrī Rūpa replied, "I think that the desire to hear of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is prarocanā."
PURPORT
The method of inducing the audience to become more and more eager to hear by praising the time and place, the hero and the audience is called  prarocanā . This is the statement regarding  prarocanā  in the  Nāṭaka-candrikā :
deśa-kāla-kathā-vastu- sabhyādīnāṁ praśaṁsayā śrotīṇām unmukhī-kāraḥ kathiteyaṁ prarocanā
Similarly the  Sāhitya-darpaṇa  (6.286) says:
tasyāḥ prarocanā vīthī tathā prahasanā-mukhe aṅgānyatronmukhī-kāraḥ praśaṁsātaḥ prarocanā
Any literature presented in Sanskrit must follow the rules and regulations mentioned in the authoritative reference books. The technical inquiries by Śrīla Rāmānanda Rāya and the replies of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī indicate that both of them were expert and fully conversant with the techniques of writing drama.
TEXT 138
ভক্তানামৃদগাদনর্গলধিয়াং বর্গো নিসর্গোজ্জলঃ শীলৈঃ পল্লবিতঃ স বল্লববধুবঙ্কোঃ প্রবঙ্কোহপ্যসো । লেভে চত্বরতাঞ্চ তাণ্ডববিধের্ন্দাটবীগর্ভভূ- র্মন্ত্রে মদ্বিধপুণ্যমণ্ডলপরীপাকোহয়মুন্নীলতি ॥ ১৩৮ ॥
bhaktānām udagād anargala-dhiyāṁ vargo nisargojjvalaḥ śīlaiḥ pallavitaḥ sa ballava-vadhū-bandho prabandho 'py asau lebhe catvaratāṁ ca tāṇḍava-vidher vṛndāṭavī-garbha-bhūr manye mad-vidha-puṇya-maṇḍala-parīpāko 'yam unmīlati