Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.78

c6.s2.78

There are different versions of the story of Caitanya's first meeting at Puri¹ with this venerable Bengali scholar; but one of the orthodox accounts gives a dramatic setting to the whole incident.² While beholding for the first time the image of Jagannātha, Caitanya is said to have been so much overpowered by his ecstatic emotions that he made a frenzied attempt to embrace the holy image and dropped senseless on the ground in his effort. The priests of the temple, mistaking him for a mad man, began to ill-treat him. Vāsudeva, who