190 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 14

PURPORT

Besides Svaripa Damodara and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, there were many
others who also recorded Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s activities. Srila Bhakti-
siddhanta Sarasvati Thakura believes that the people of the world would benefit
greatly if such notes were available. It is a most unfortunate situation for human
society that none of these notebooks are still extant.

TEXT 9

THE BE YS!A’ CS QosA |
ACB SEC BCAA FOSI- SPA Id |

ksane ksane anubhavi’ ei dui-jana
sanksepe bahulye karena kadaca-granthana

SYNONYMS

ksane ksame—moment by moment; anubhavi’—understanding; ei dui-jana—
these two persons; sanksepe—in brief; bahulye—elaborately; karena—do;
kadaca-granthana—compiling the notebooks.

TRANSLATION

These two great personalities [Svarapa Damodara and Raghunatha dasa
Gosvami] recorded the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu moment by
moment. They described these activities briefly as well as elaborately in their
notebooks.

PURPORT

For future reference, we should remember that SvarGpa Damodara Gosvami
recorded the pastimes briefly, whereas Raghunatha dasa Gosvami recorded them
elaborately. These two great personalities simply recorded the facts; they did not
create any descriptive literary embellishments.

TEXT 10
aa —FASS?, Ayala Glee’ |
Sta stay afi—ohfe-Dai-agawta ii So i

svarujpa — ‘sutra-karta’, raghunatha — ‘vrttikdra’
tara bahulya varni——panji-tikd-vyavahdra
