Text 190] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Prasada to the Lord 99

TRANSLATION

Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya said, ‘‘Please accept my invitation for lunch for
one month.” The Lord replied, ‘‘That is not possible because it is against the
religious principles of a sannyasi.”’

TEXT 189

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sarvabhauma kahe, —bhiksa karaha visa dina
prabhu kahe, —eha nahe yati-dharma-cihna

SYNONYMS

sarvabhauma kahe—Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya said; bhiksa karaha—accept
lunch; visa dina—for twenty days; prabhu kahe—Lord $ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
said; eha nahe —this is not; yati-dharma-cihna—the symptom of a person in the
renounced order of life.

TRANSLATION

Sarvabhauma then said, ‘‘Please accept the invitation for twenty days,’”’ but
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, “It is not a religious principle of the
renounced order.”

TEXT 190

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sarvabhauma kahe punah,—dina ‘pafica-dasa’
prabhu kahe, —tomara bhiksda ‘eka’ divasa

SYNONYMS
sarvabhauma kahe—Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya said; punah—again; dina
pafica-dasa—fifteen days; prabhu kahe—the Lord replied; tomara bhiksé—lunch
at your place; eka, divasa—only one day.

TRANSLATION

When Sarvabhauma requested Caitanya Mahaprabhu to accept lunch for
fifteen days, the Lord said, ‘‘I shall accept lunch at your place for one day
only.”
