Text 72] Ripa Gosvami’s Meeting with the Lord 35
TEXT 71
Qe ‘AMY ‘ASlaM’, Ge ALAA |
Hee staal fafa efam Stee ual
dui ‘nandi’ ‘prastavand’, dui ‘sarnghatand’
prthak kariyd likhi kariyaé bhavand
SYNONYMS
dui nandi—two invocations of good fortune; prastavand—introductions; dui—
two; sarhghatand—chains of events; prthak kariya—making separate; likhi—I
shall write; kariya bhavand—thinking about them.
TRANSLATION
“I shall write two separate invocations of good fortune and two different in-
troductions. Let me think deeply about the matter and then describe two dif-
ferent sets of incidents.”
PURPORT
The two works are Vidagdha-madhava and Lalita-madhava. Vidagdha-madhava
describes pastimes in Vrndavana, and Lalita-madhava describes pastimes in
Dvaraka and Mathura.
TEXT 72
AMG Satay ely SAM |
AM-TDCG! AST HSI IGA CHEM 1 92
ratha-yatraya jagannatha darsana karila
ratha-agre prabhura nrtya-kirtana dekhila
SYNONYMS
ratha-yatraya—during the function of Ratha-yatra; jagannatha—Lord Jagan-
natha; darsana karila—he saw; ratha-agre—the front of the ratha, or chariot;
prabhura—of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; nrtya—dancing; kirtana—chanting;
dekhila—he saw.
TRANSLATION
During the Ratha-yatra ceremony Ripa Gosvami saw Lord Jagannatha. He
also saw Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu dancing and chanting in front of the
ratha.
