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CC Ādi 3.1

Bengali

শ্রীচৈতন্যপ্রভুং বন্দে যৎপাদাশ্রয়বীর্যতঃ ।
সংগৃহ্ণাত্যাকরব্রাতাদজ্ঞঃ সিদ্ধান্তসন্মণীন্‌ ॥ ১ ॥

Text

śrī-caitanya-prabhuṁ vande
yat-pādāśraya-vīryataḥ
saṅgṛhṇāty ākara-vrātād
ajñaḥ siddhānta-san-maṇīn

Synonyms

śrī-caitanya-prabhum — to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; vande — I offer my respectful obeisances; yat — of whom; pāda-āśraya — of the shelter of the lotus feet; vīryataḥ — from the power; saṅgṛhṇāti — collects; ākara-vrātāt — from the multitude of mines in the form of scriptures; ajñaḥ — a fool; siddhānta — of conclusion; sat-maṇīn — the best jewels.

Translation

I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. By the potency of the shelter of His lotus feet, even a fool can collect the valuable jewels of conclusive truth from the mines of the revealed scriptures.