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dui-pana kaudi lage prabhura nimantrane

kabhu dui-jana bhokta, kabhu tina-jane

SYNONYMS

dui-pana kaudi—two panas of kaudis (160 small conchshells); lage—costs; prabhura nimantrane—to invite Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kabhu—sometimes; dui-jana—two men; bhokta—eating; kabhu—sometimes; tina-jane—three men.

The cost for the food needed to invite Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was fixed at two panas of kaudis (160 conchshells), and that food would be taken by two men and sometimes three.