CC Antya 1.71
Bengali
দুই ‘নান্দী’ ‘প্রস্তাবনা’, দুই ‘সংঘটনা’ ।
পৃথক্ করিয়া লিখি করিয়া ভাবনা ॥ ৭১ ॥
পৃথক্ করিয়া লিখি করিয়া ভাবনা ॥ ৭১ ॥
Verse text
dui ‘nāndī’ ‘prastāvanā’, dui ‘saṁghaṭanā’
pṛthak kariyā likhi kariyā bhāvanā
pṛthak kariyā likhi kariyā bhāvanā
Synonyms
dui nāndī — two invocations of good fortune; prastāvanā — introductions; dui — two; saṁghaṭanā — chains of events; pṛthak kariyā — making separate; likhi — I shall write; kariyā bhāvanā — thinking about them.
Translation
“I shall write two separate invocations of good fortune and two different introductions. Let me think deeply about the matter and then describe two different sets of incidents.”
Purport
The two works are the Vidagdha-mādhava and the Lalita-mādhava. The Vidagdha-mādhava describes pastimes in Vṛndāvana, and the Lalita-mādhava describes pastimes in Dvārakā and Mathurā.