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Words Starting with C

 

Caitanya Carita – a book of pastimes by Murari Gupta

 

Caitanya Mańgala – a book of pastimes by Locana Dāsa Thākura

 

Caitanya Caritāmṛta – a biographical work by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī describing the pastimes and events of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu

 

Caitanya Mahāprabhu – incarnation of the Lord disguised as His own devotee to spread the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahāmantra and teach others how to love and serve Him

 

caitya guru – the Supreme Lord, advising an advanced devotee from within the heart

 

cakra – 1) any circular object 2) Lord Kṛṣṇa’s disc-weapon (sudarśana) 3) a set of six melakartās grouped by common purvāńgas in the South Indian system

 

cakravyuha – the circle trap; used in the Mahābhārata war

 

campaka savārī – a rare eleven beat rhythm

 

Cāńda Bāul – Bhaktivinoda Thākura’s pen-name in Bāul Sańgīt

 

Cāńda Kāzi – a Muslim ruler who initially disrupted Lord Caitanya’s kīrtanas, later joined Him

 

caṇḍāla – outcaste; dog-eater

 

Candra – the deity in charge of the moon.

 

Cāṇura – one of the Kaḿsa’s wrestlers and ministers; killed by Kṛṣṇa

 

cāratāla kī savārī – a less known eleven beat cycle

 

caraṇa – feet

 

caraṇam – a verse or musical difference from the refrain

 

caraṇāmṛta – “the nectar of the feet”; the liquid which touched the feet of the Deity

 

Carnatic sańgīt – (Karnāṭaka) the music of South India

 

catasra jātī – the class of rhythmic cycle having properties of a four count

 

caturdasī – the fourteenth day of a half-month

 

caturmāsya – the austerities observed for four months during the rainy seasons from late summer to mid-autumn

 

cautāla – a twelve beat cycle commonly used in dhrupada music

 

chala – deceit

 

choṭā – younger

 

Choṭā Haridāsa – follower of Lord Caitanya who was rejected by Him for breach of behavior; after his death, he would come to Lord Caitanya to sing for Him

 

choṭī savārī – a fifteen beat pakhawaj cycle

 

Citraketu – Lord Lakṣmaṇa’s son

 

Citrakūṭa – the forest area where Rāma, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa stayed until Bharata’s arrival

 

Citrāńgada – the elder son of Sāntanu and Satyavatī; killed in office by a gandharva with the same name

 

Citrāńgadā – the wife of Arjuna and mother of Babruvāhana

 

Cyavana – a seer who sought protection from Lord Rāma when the demon Lavaṇa oppressed the ascetics and devotees in Mathurā.