Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.27

c6.s2.27

About this time Viśvambhara is said to have made an extensive tour in East Bengal. Although his orthodox biographies represent it in a different light, Murāri, Locana and Jayānanda agree in stating that the professed object of the tour was to acquire wealth,¹ and he seems to have received gratifying gifts from pious householders. The records of the tour are scanty and uncertain, but some tradition² extends it up to Sylhet in Assam in order to make him visit his ancestral home there. During his absence his young wife Lakṣmī, whom, he is said to have married out of love at first sight and who is depicted as an ideal wife and daughter-in-law, died of snake-bite. On his return he took the news with great calmness. He was soon married again to Viṣṇupriyā, daughter