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astadasadhyaya pade ananda-avese

asuddha padena, loka kare upahase

SYNONYMS

astadasa-adhyaya—eighteen chapters; pade—reads; ananda-avese—in great ecstasy; asuddha padena—could not pronounce the text correctly; loka—people in general; kare—do; upahase—joking.

The brahmana regularly read the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad-gita in great transcendental ecstasy, but because he could not pronounce the words correctly, people used to joke about him.