Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s1.t2.3

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II Raghunātha-dāsa also wrote a Kaḍacā; as the last passage states, it is also lost. Possibly this was no independent work of Raghunātha's, but he helped his Guru Svarūpa Dāmodara in the compiling of the latter's Kaḍacā. Nothing of Raghunātha-dāsa's writing on Caitanya remains except his Caitanyāṣṭaka and Gaurāṅga-stavakalpataru incorporated in his Stavāvalī (altogether 20 stanzas); while we have only a few doctrinal verses in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (13, 17, 149) ascribed to Svarūpa Dāmodara. These could not have been implied by the word Kaḍacā in Kṛṣṇadāsa's statement. Bimanbihari Majumdar (op. cit., p. 331) denies that any biographical account could have been written by Svarūpa Dāmodara or Raghuto it as his chief source for the middle part and last years of Caitanya's life, and describes it as a Kaḍacā. This could not have been the actual name of the work which is said to have been composed in Sanskrit. The author appears to have been originally a Navadvīpa scholar,¹ named Puruṣottama Ācārya (C-bh. Antya x. 52), a Vedāntist who subsequently became a Saṃnyāsin of the Daṇḍin order under the name of Svarūpa Dāmodara. Attaching himself to Caitanya as one of his most intimate and favourite disciples at Puri, he became thereafter an indispensable companion, keeping watchful care and regulating the life of the Master in detail.² Kavikarṇapūra in his Caitanya-candrodaya,³ as well as Caitanya's other biographers, makes him, as he really was, a great figure in Caitanya's life at Puri; and the verse viii. 10 (heloddhūlita-