Text 138] Ripa Gosvami’s Meeting with the Lord 71

TRANSLATION

Ramananda Raya said, ‘Please recite the prarocana portion so that | may
hear and examine it.” Sri Ripa replied, ‘I think that the desire to hear of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu is prarocana.

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 prarocand. This
is the statement regarding prarocand in the Nataka-candrika:

desa-kala-katha-vastu-
sabhyadindm prasamsaya

srotfndam unmukhi-karah
kathiteyam prarocana

Similarly the Sahitya-darpana (6.286) says:

tasyah prarocana vithi
tatha prahasand-mukhe

anganyatronmukhi-karah
prasarsatah prarocana

Any literature presented in Sanskrit must follow the rules and regulations men-
tioned in the authoritative reference books. The technical inquiries by Srila Rama-
nanda Raya and the replies of Srila Ripa Gosvamt indicate that both of them were
expert and fully conversant with the techniques of writing drama.

TEXT 138
selatquatrafatiats ah facta
Nea aha: A ATTACH: AATHTRATCA |
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Sea afeutaMemTA CT RATA ARS | 90b 4

bhaktandm udagad anargala-dhiyam vargo nisargojjvalah
silaih pallavitah sa ballava-vadhd-bandho prabandho ‘py asau
lebhe catvaratémh ca tandava-vidher vrndatavi-garbha-bhar
manye mad-vidha-punya-mandala-paripako ‘yam unmilati
