Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.43

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(i) Śrī-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, both Bṛhat and Laghu. This work is better known as *Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā and has been printed at Murshidabad;⁴ it is said to exist in Bṛhat and Laghu versions. (ii) Prayuktākhyāta-candrikā, apparently a grammatical work, dealing with verbs, but no information is available about it. (iii) Kṛṣṇa-janma-tithi-vidhi. Nothing is known about this work, but it may be the same work as noticed by Aufrecht in his Leipzig Catalogue, no. 621, entitled Kṛṣṇa-janma-tithi-vidhi. The author's name does not appear on the manuscript which consists of 22 folios, but the opening verse says that it was composed at the direction of the Lord (prabhūnāṃ vinideśataḥ), by which honorific term Rūpa often refers to Sanātana. Also (iv) *Aṣṭakālika-ślokāvali*, consisting of eleven verses, which Rūpa is said to have given to Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja for elaborating.¹ This must have been the basis of Kṛṣṇadāsa's *Govinda-līlāmṛta*, which deals with the same theme, and which in xxiii. 94 appears to refer to some such work by Rūpa (*śri-rūpa-darśita-diśā likhitāṣṭakālyā/ śri-rādhikeśa-kṛta-keli-tatir mayeyam*). Haraprasad Sastri in his *Notices* (2nd Series i, p. 418, no. 414) mentions a work entitled *Smaraṇa-maṅgalai-kādaśa* which, however, does not consist of eleven but thirty-five verses, but the colophon of which says: *iti śrimad-rūpa-gosvāminā viracitam śri-rādhā-kṛṣṇayor aṣṭa-kālika-ślokāvali-smaraṇa-maṅgalam samāptam*.² (v) Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa,