Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s1.t4.3

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² Various dates are given: Ramagati Nyāya-ratna (*Baṅgabhāṣā O Sāhitya-viṣayaka Prastāva*) gives Saka 1470 = 1547 A.D.); Jagadbandhu Bhadra (*Gaura-pada taraṅgiṇī*, introduction p. 130) gives 1457 (= 1535 A.D.) which is absurd, because, if it were so, then this important biography would have been referred to in Kavikarṇapūra's Sanskrit *Caitanya-caritāmṛta*. Dinesh Chandra Sen in his various works gives the dates 1535 and 1573 A.D.; but the authority for these conjectures is not known. The work must have been completed some time before Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja undertook the laborious compilation of his