Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s1.t3.2

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¹ Kavikarṇapūra speaks about his father as one of the chief disciples of the Master (pārṣadāgryam mahāprabhoḥ) in his Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, śl. 4 and 177. Śivānanda is regarded as occupying a high position among Caitanya's disciples: see Murāri, iv, 17, 6; Vṛndāvana-dāsa, Antya v and ix; Jayānanda, p. 142; Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, Antya i, 12-28; x, 139; xii, 11 and 44; xvi, 60 etc. Both in his drama and his poem, Karṇapūra mentions Śivānanda many times and records that during his return to Bengal Caitanya paid a visit to Śivānanda's house. There is also a significant passage in the drama in which Śivānanda is represented as bringing his son (apparently Kavikarṇapūra himself) before Caitanya at Puri.