Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s4.26

c7.s4.26

³ The title Sarasvatī is mentioned in the *Bhakti-ratnākara*.—The Stotra-kāvya, named *Rādhā-rasa-sudhānidhi*, printed in two parts from the Bhakti-prabhā Office, Hugli 1924, 1935, is wrongly ascribed to Prabodhānanda. The first and the last verses of the printed text pay homage to Caitanya, but these verses are missing in the MSS noticed by Eggeling (*India Office Catalogue*, vii, pp. 1464-65), Aufrecht (*Bodleian Catalogue* p. 131, no. 239), Haraprasad Sastri (*Descriptive Catalogue of ASB Collection*, vii, p. 230 and *Notices*, 2nd Series, i, p. 384), while the work is uniformly ascribed in these and other MSS to Hitaharivaṃśa, son of Vyāsa. It is obviously a case of appropriation by the Caitanya sect of a work composed by Hitaharivaṃśa of the Rādhāvallabhi sect!