Text 190] Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Offers Prasāda to the Lord
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TRANSLATION
Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said, “Please accept my invitation for lunch for one month.” The Lord replied, “That is not possible because it is against the religious principles of a sannyāsī.”
TEXT 189
সার্বভৌম কহে,—ভিক্ষা করহ বিশ দিন ।
প্রভু কহে,—এহ নহে যতিধর্ম-চিহ্ন ॥ ১৮৯ ॥
sārvabhauma kahe, —bhikṣā karaha viśa dina prabhu kahe, —eha nahe yati-dharma-cihna
SYNONYMS
sārvabhauma kahe —Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said;  bhikṣā karaha —accept lunch;  viśa dina —for twenty days;  prabhu kahe —Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said;  eha nahe —this is not;  yati-dharma-cihna —the symptom of a person in the renounced order of life.
TRANSLATION
Sārvabhauma then said, “Please accept the invitation for twenty days,” but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu replied, “It is not a religious principle of the renounced order.”
TEXT 190
সার্বভৌম কহে পুনঃ,—দিন ‘পঞ্চদশ’ ।
প্রভু কহে,—তোমার ভিক্ষা ‘এক’ দিবস ॥ ১৯০ ॥
sārvabhauma kahe punaḥ, —dina ‘pañca-daśa’ prabhu kahe, —tomāra bhikṣā ‘eka’ divasa
SYNONYMS
sārvabhauma kahe —Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya said;  punaḥ —again;  dina pañca-daśa —fifteen days;  prabhu kahe —the Lord replied;  tomāra bhikṣā —lunch at your place;  eka divasa —only one day.
TRANSLATION
When Sārvabhauma requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu to accept lunch for fifteen days, the Lord said, “I shall accept lunch at your place for one day only.”