Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.83

c6.s2.83

¹ While the details of the debate are omitted in other accounts, Kṛṣṇadāsa appears to have elaborated it, not from Vṛndāvana-dāsa's brief account of one day's disputation, but mainly from Kavikarṇapūra's poetical description in his Kāvya. See B. Majumdar, op. cit., pp. 358-66. It is curious that one of the well known Bhāgavata verses is said to have been interpreted by Caitanya ingeniously in different ways—the number of ways being given as nine by Kavikarṇapūra, more than thirteen by Vṛndāvana-dāsa, and eighteen by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, while during Sanātana's teaching (Madhya xxiv), sixty-one different interpretations of the same verse are mentioned!