History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s3.80

c9.s3.80

Vrindāvan Dās, born 1507 A.D. After Govinda Dās's account of the few years of Chaitanya's life, the next biographical work about the great Vaiṣṇava prophet was written by Vrindāvan Dās born in 1507 A.D. He was a grandson of Çrinivās, whose brother Çrivāsa's devotion to Chaitanya Deva is well known to the Vaiṣṇava community. The spacious lawn before Çrivāsa's house was the favourite haunt of the Sankirtan parties led by Chaitanya Deva; many a night from the rise of the evening star on the western horizon till the appearance of the sun, the deep chanting of God's name was heard accompanied with the unceasing sounds of *khol* and *kartal* in this historic *'angina'* of Çrivāsa, but Vrindāvan Dās was only two years old when Chaitanya Deva left Navadwipa for good. The biographer regrets in many passages of his work that he had not had the good fortune of seeing Chaitanya Deva.