68 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 12

vastrenavrta-dehas tu
yo narah pranamed dharim
svitri bhavati mddhatma
sapta janmani bhavini

“Anyone who offers respects and obeisances to the Deity while wearing gar-
ments on the upper portion of his body is condemned to be a leper for seven
births.”

TEXT 38

AS Se, —“Hare at faatce ata aertgee |
fag al afte, HS, TITS Bata BA” or I

prabhu kahe, — “Srikanta dsiyache pafia mano-dubkha
kichu na baliha, karuka, yate ihara sukha”’

SYNONYMS
prabhu kahe—Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said; srikanta—Srikanta; asiyache—
has come; pafida—getting; manah-duhkha—distress in the mind; kichu—any-
thing; na baliha—do not say; karuka—let him do; yate—by which; ihara—his;
sukha—happiness.
TRANSLATION

As Govinda was warning Srikanta, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, ‘Don’t
bother him. Let Srikanta do whatever he likes, for he has come here in a dis-
tressed state of mind.”

TEXT 39

CaMTAA AaSIA catinifias afer 1
QF OCF Hala at Dstye oat os 1

vaisnavera samdcara gosahi puchila
eke eke sabara nama srikanta janaila

SYNONYMS

vaisnavera—of all the Vaisnavas; samacdra—news; gosahi—Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu; puchila—inquired; eke eke—one after another; sabara—of all of
them; ndma—names; srikanta—the nephew of Sivananda Sena; jandilé—in-
formed.
