Text 44] Lord Caitanya at the House of Advaita Acarya 263

TEXT 43

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battisa-athiya-kalara dngatiya pate
dui thafi bhoga badaila bhala mate

SYNONYMS

battisé-athiya—producing thirty-two bunches; kaléra—of a banana tree;
angatiya—undivided; pate—on leaves; dui thafi—in two places; bhoga—
the eatables; badaila—arranged; bhala mate —very nicely.

TRANSLATION

Of the three divisions, one was arranged on a metal plate, and the other
two were arranged on plantain leaves. These leaves were not bifurcated,
and they were taken from a banana tree that held at least thirty-two
bunches of bananas. The two plates were filled very nicely with the kinds
of food described below.

TEXT 44

aoe Ate-qufae aieycHA G7 |
Difalecs azen-cotel, Ota AeA | 8s 1

madhye pita-ghrta-sikta salyannera stpa
cari-dike vyafijana-dongd, dra mudga-stipa

SYNONYMS

madhye—in the middle; pita—yellow; ghrta-sikta—wet with clarified but-
ter; sdélyannera—of very fine cooked rice; stGpa—a mound; cdari-dike—
surrounding the mound of rice; vyafijana-donga—vegetable pots; ara—and;
mudga-stpa—dahl made of split mung.

TRANSLATION

The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely cooked, and in
the middle was yellow butter clarified from the milk of cows. Surrounding
the stack of rice were pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these
pots were varieties of vegetables and mung dahl.
