Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s3.30

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The *Lalita-mādhava*,¹ a more extensive drama in ten Acts, is more complicated in theme and plot, although it is, like the other works, more narrative than dramatic in conception and execution, there being a great deal of talk but little incident. This work was also inspired in a dream by Gopīśvara Śiva, and was enacted to entertain an assembly of Vaiṣṇava devotees, gathered at the temple of Mādhavī-mādhava on the Rādhā-kuṇḍa at Vṛndāvana, on the occasion of the worship of the Govardhana hill during the Dīpāvalī festival. There are Namaskriyās to Caitanya as Śacī-suta, and to Sanātana as the incarnation of the mythical sage of the same name.