CC Adi 10.116
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - Chapter 10: The Trunk, Branches and Subbranches of the Caitanya Tree
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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.