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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, Chapter 10: The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the Caitanya Tree

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 116

rāmadāsa abhirāma—sakhya-premarāśi
ṣolasāṅgera kāṣṭha tuli’ ye karila vāṅśī

SYNONYMS

rāmadāsa abhirāma—Rāmadāsa Abhirāma; sakhya-prema—friendship; rāśi—great volume; ṣolasa-aṅgera—of sixteen knots; kaṣṭha—wood; tuli’—lifting; ye—one who; karila—made; vāṅśī—flute.

TRANSLATION

Rāmadāsa Abhirāma was fully absorbed in the mellow of friendship. He made a flute of a bamboo stick with sixteen knots.

PURPORT

Abhirāma was an inhabitant of Khānākula-kṛṣṇa-nagara.