History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s2.2

c9.s2.2

Chaitanya Deva's ancestors were inhabitants of Jājpur in Orissa who owing to the oppression of Raja Bhramarbara, had settled in the village of Dhākā-Dakṣiṇa in Sylhet. Jagannāth Miçra the father had come to Navadwīpa to complete his education and there married Çachī Devi a daughter of Nilāmvara Chakravarty originally an inhabitant of Sylhet, who was now settled in Navadwīpa. Jagannāth Miçra and this Çachī Devi had eight daughters and two sons. The daughters all died in infancy. The elder son was Viçvarupa and the younger Viçvambhara. They called him, however, by the pet name Nimāi because he had been born in a shed under a Nimba-tree. This Nimāi afterwards became famous as Chaitanya Deva.