Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c5.s2.35

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¹ Keśava Bhāratī, who formally initiated Caitanya into the monastic order at Katwa, near Burdwan, in Saka 1431=1510 A.D. does not appear to have exercised any direct spiritual influence on Caitanya or his sect. He is said to have belonged to the village of Denud in the district of Burdwan and born of Bengali Brahmin ancestry. According to the Prema-vilāsa (ch. xiii) Keśava's former name was Kālinātha Ācārya, and his native place was Kuliyā in Navadvīpa. But he appears to have resided chiefly at Katwa (Kan-taka-nagara). In the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Itihāsa (in Bengali) by Madhusudan Tattvavacaspati (2nd ed., Hooghly, 1333 B.S.=1926 A.D.) a confusion is made (p. 152) between Keśava Bhāratī and Keśava Kāśmīrī of the Nimbārka sect, of whom we shall speak later.