History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s3.85

c9.s3.85

But Vrindāvan Dās shows considerable powers as a historian. We feel a greater interest in the incidental description of the contemporary events that he gives than in his delineation of the subject of his memoir. He describes Chaitanya Deva's life in the light of the Bhāgavata which gives an account of Çri Kriṣṇa's life. Yet the Kriṣṇa of Vrindāvan, Mathurā and Kurukṣetra is as different from Chaitanya of Navadvipa as ever were any two characters in history. Vrindāvan Dās in his zeal to prove the identity of the two personalities hopelessly confounds both. It is, as I have said, in the incidental description of contemporary events that he shows the hand of a competent historian, and the biography greatly interests us when we study the minor facts related in it. It is also an invaluable source of information regarding the lives of many of Chaitanya Deva's followers.