Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s2.17

c7.s2.17

⁴ The commentary on Rūpa Gosvāmin’s Dāna-keli-kaumudī is wrongly ascribed to Raghunātha-dāsa in Aufrecht. It was composed by Jīva. To Raghunātha-dāsa, as well as to his namesake Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa, is sometimes wrongly attributed the Govinda-līlāmṛta which was really the work of their friend and disciple Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, who is described in xxiii. 95 as "a bee to the lotus-feet of Rūpa and Raghunātha" (see Ind. Ant., 1928, p. 208). A Sārāt-sāra-tattva-saṃgraha is ascribed also to Raghunātha in a manuscript noticed in Mitra, Notices, vi, no. 2153, p. 214. It proposes to deal with the five Tattvas, viz., Guru, Kṛṣṇa, Nāman, Bhakti and Bhakta, for these are regarded as sārāt sāraṃ parāt param. But the colophon simply says: Iti sārāt-sāra-tattva-saṃgrahe pañcākhyāne ṣaṣṭha-vivekaḥ. The topic is dealt with also by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja in C-C, Ādi vii. 3-17. As Svarūpa Dāmodara is credited by Kavikarṇapūra with the doctrine of Pañca-tattva, it is not unlikely that Svarūpa’s disciple Raghunātha also wrote a work on the subject. Ānandin (p. 125) refers to Svarūpa’s work on Pañca-tattva as Gaura-tattva-nirūpaṇa.