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CC Madhya 23.60

Bengali

চিত্রজল্পের দশ অঙ্গ — প্রজল্পাদি-নাম ।
‘ভ্রমর-গীতা’র দশ শ্লোক তাহাতে প্রমাণ ॥ ৬০ ॥

Text

citra-jalpera daśa aṅga — prajalpādi-nāma
‘bhramara-gītā’ra daśa śloka tāhāte pramāṇa

Synonyms

citra-jalpera — of the mad talks; daśa — ten; aṅga — parts; prajalpa-ādi-nāma — named prajalpa and so on; bhramara-gītāra — of Rādhārāṇī’s talks with the bumblebee (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto Ten, chapter forty-seven); daśa śloka — ten verses; tāhāte — in that matter; pramāṇa — the evidence.

Translation

“Mad emotional talks include ten divisions, called prajalpa and other names. An example of this is the ten verses spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī called ‘The Song to the Bumblebee.’

Purport

Imaginative mad talks, known as citra-jalpa, can be divided into ten categories — prajalpa, parijalpa, vijalpa, ujjalpa, sañjalpa, avajalpa, abhijalpa, ājalpa, pratijalpa and sujalpa. There are no English equivalents for these different features of jalpa (imaginative talk).