CC Antya 14.10

Antya-līlā, Chapter 14, Text 10

স্বরূপ — ‘সূত্রকর্তা’, রঘুনাথ — ‘বৃত্তিকার’ ।
তার বাহুল্য বর্ণি — পাঁজি-টীকা-ব্যবহার ॥ ১০ ॥

svarūpa — ‘sūtra-kartā’, raghunātha — ‘vṛttikāra’
tāra bāhulya varṇi — pāṅji-ṭīkā-vyavahāra

Word by word

svarūpa — Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī; sūtra-kartā — maker of short notes; raghunātha — Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī; vṛtti-kāra — maker of elaborate explanations; tāra — of those; bāhulya — more elaborately; varṇi — I shall describe; pāṅji — fluffing out (as of cotton); ṭīkā — explanation; vyavahāra — behavior.

Translation

Svarūpa Dāmodara wrote short notes, whereas Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī wrote elaborate descriptions. I shall now describe Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities more elaborately, as if fluffing out compressed cotton.

Purport

Pāṅji-ṭīkā means further explanations of a subject. Writing such explanations is likened to the process of fluffing out cotton.