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Chapter Summary

Purport
The summary of this chapter is given by ÅšrÄ«la Bhaktivinoda ṬhÄkura in his Amá¹›ta-pravÄha-bhÄá¹£ya as follows. In this chapter it is described how BrahmÄ HaridÄsa ṬhÄkura gave up his body with the consent of ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu, and how the Lord Himself personally performed the funeral ceremony and carried the body to the sea. He personally entombed the body, covered it with sand and erected a platform on the site. After taking a bath in the sea, He personally begged prasÄdam of JagannÄtha from shopkeepers and distributed prasÄdam to the assembled devotees.