Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s1.t2.9

c6.s1.t2.9

¹ The verses 5-12 which open Kṛṣṇadāsa's Caitanya-caritāmṛta are printed in some editions of the text as quotations from the so-called Kaḍacā of Svarūpa Dāmodara (e.g. in Vaṅgavāsī ed., Mādhva Gauḍīya Maṭha ed. etc.); but in the Kālnā edition of the text this indication is omitted. The manuscripts of the text which we have consulted in the Dacca University Library do not support this attribution to Svarūpa, as there is no such heading there as svarūpa-gosvāmi-kaḍacāyām. See S. K. De in IHQ, 1933, pp. 99-100; Bimanbihari Majumdar, op. cit. p. 329, coming to the same conclusion after consulting five MSS of the work in the Vaṅgiya Sāhitya Pariṣad collection. It is probably an unjustifiable "padding" by zealous editors, of which instances are very frequent in the printed texts. The well-known verse śrī-rādhāyāḥ praṇava-mahimā is often, but wrongly, attributed to Svarūpa Dāmodara, probably because it embodies a doctrine ascribed to him.