234 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [ Adi-lila, Ch. 16

SYNONYMS

brdhmana-patnira—of the wife of a brdhmana; bhartéra—of the husband; haste—
in the hand; deha—give; da@na—charity; sabda—these words; sunitei—hearing; haya—
there is; dvitlya-bhartd—another husband; /ridna—knowledge.

TRANSLATION

“If someone says, ‘Place this charity in the hand of the husband of the wife of
the brahmana,’ when we hear these contradictory words we immediately under-
stand that the brahmana’s wife has another husband.

TEXT 66
fasafs’ fran ates—omrie, Jas facia |
BS, SON — 9 YAoAtS Fel 1 VY
‘vibhavati’ kriyaya vkya—safnga, punch visesana
‘adbhuta-gund'—ei punar-Gtta ditsana

SYNONYMS
vibhavati—vibhavati (flourishes); kriya@ya—by the verb; vakya—statement; sanga—
complete; punafi—again; visesana—an adjective; adbhuta-gund—wonderful qualities;
ei—this; punar-Gtta—repetition of the same word; diisana—fault.
TRANSLATION

“The statement by the word vibhavati [flourishes] is complete. Qualifying it
with the adjective adbhuta-guna [wonderful qualities] creates the fault of
redundancy.

TEXT 67
fon ire CEZeTH cafe SIA |
OS AAiCw aha, GS CHA SEPA’ 1 v9 I

tina pdde anuprasa dekhi anupama
eka pdde nahi, ei dosa ‘bhagna-krarna’

SYNONYMS

tina pGde—in three lines; anuprasa—alliteration; dekhi—| see; anupama—extraor-
dinary; eka pade—in one line; ndhi—there is not (alliteration); e/ dosa—this fault;
bhagna-krama—deviation.

TRANSLATION

“There is extraordinary alliteration in three lines of the verse, but in one line
there is no such alliteration. This is the fault of deviation.
