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Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.120

Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.120

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c6.s2.120

Thus passing six years, after his Saṃnyāsa, in pilgrimages till about Śaka 1437=1515 A.D., Caitanya settled permanently at Puri at about the age of thirty. According to Kavikarṇapūra and Jayānanda, he lived at Toṭā Āśrama of Kāśīśvara Miśra. With a chosen few about him he spent the remaining eighteen years in a comparatively uneventful life of worship and daily adoration of Jagannātha. The monotony was broken by the annual exodus of his Bengal disciples, as well as by occasional visits of scholars, devotees and admirers.¹ The history of this