Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s1.t4.4

c6.s1.t4.4

*Govinda-līlāmṛta* of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja and *Kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta* of Viśvanātha Cakravartin. The work is often wrongly ascribed to Bilvamaṅgala (see *Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta*, ed. S. K. De, Dacca 1938, p. xx, footnote 2).—The *Camatkāra-candrikā*, a small Kāvya in four Kutūhalas and 225 verses, on Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-līlā, is sometimes assigned to Kavikarṇapūra (Rajendralala Mitra, *Notices*, vi, no. 2150, pp. 212-13), but it belongs most probably to Viśvanātha Cakravartin. In the printed edition of this text, however, based on three MSS (ed. Haridas Das, in Bengali characters, with a Bengali translation, Navadipa 1937), no manuscript indication or proof of authorship is found. In the India Office MS of the work (Eggeling, vii, p. 1463, no. 3882/ 1177e) the author's name is missing. Several other works are ascribed to him, but their genuineness is doubtful. The *Varṇa-prakāśa*, a dictionary of vocables containing the same consonants, composed for Rājadhara, son of Amara-māṇikya of Traipura (= Tipperah), is probably by some other Kavikarṇapūra, as the MS noticed in the India Office Catalogue (Eggeling, no. 3107, ii, p. 293) contains no reference or homage to Caitanya. A *Bṛhat-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā* is also ascribed to him in the *Pandit*, ix, 105. Of the *Āryā-śataka* mentioned above, no information is available.—An account of the literary works of Kavikarṇapūra will be found below in Ch. vii.