Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s2.7

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as his Śikṣā-guru. After Caitanya's death he is said to have left Puri for Vṛndāvana, where he joined Rūpa and Sanātana and lived a self-imposed life of hard asceticism near Rādhā-kuṇḍa till his death. Caitanya had entrusted him with a Govardhana-śilā, a dark-coloured stone used as an emblem of Kṛṣṇa, which he nourished and tended with deep devotion, daily bathing it, feeding it and worshipping it with elaborate service. From his Vraja-vilāsa-stava (Śl. 2), it appears that he became blind in his old age; and his Dānakeli-cintāmaṇi (Śl. 2 and 173) was composed after he had become blind. He was the only non-Brahman (Kāyastha) disciple among the Six Gosvāmins, but the honour paid to him is no less on that account.