Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.89

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¹ Murāri-gupta's present text devotes only two short and imperfect cantos (iii. 14-15) to the subject, while Kavikarṇapūra's poetical account in his *Caitanya-caritāmṛta-kāvya* (xii-xiii) is even more meagre and unsatisfactory. Vṛndāvana-dāsa has no detailed information to offer. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja professes to derive his information from Dāmodara Svarūpa's previous work: (दामोदर स्वरूपेर कह ना अनुसारे Madhya viii. 312) and regrets that he cannot give a full systematic account (कहिते ना पारि तार यथा अनुक्रम Madhya ix. 6) ; but in reality he elaborates, with the addition of miracles and legends, the accounts of Murāri and Karṇapūra. Locana-dāsa and Jayānanda, who are confused and vague do not add much. An English version of Kṛṣṇadāsa's account will be found in *Caitanya's Life and Teachings* by Jadunath Sarkar (2nd ed. Calcutta 1922), which consists of free translation of a considerable portion of the text.