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
OCF OTF Hala aT Diste Tatts u
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; ndéma—names; srikanta—the nephew of Sivananda Sena; janaila —in-
formed.
