Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.45

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¹ The following works are sometimes found ascribed to Rūpa, but their authenticity is extremely doubtful: (i) *Upadeśāmṛta*, consisting of 43 verses, which give arguments for and against asceticism, supposed to have been addressed to Jiva (Mitra, *Notices*, viii, p. 13, no. 2560). (ii) *Gaṅgāṣṭaka*, eight stanzas in praise of Gaṅgā-devī, daughter of Nityānanda (Mitra *Notices*, iv, p. 203, no. 1628). According to Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, Rūpa met Nityānanda both at Rāmakeli (Madhya i. 173-4) and at Puri (Antya i, 152); but it is curious that Rūpa never mentions Nityānanda, although he speaks of Advaita. Raghunātha also omits Nityānanda's name, but includes Advaita's. Only Sanātana, in the Maṅgala-ślokas of his *Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī*, pays homage to Nityānanda. It is extremely unlikely, therefore, Rūpa should have written anything on Nityānanda or his family. (iii) *Śikṣā-daśaka* (Roth's *Tübingen Catalogue*, 10). (iv) *Sādhana-paddhati* (Mitra, *Notices*, ix, p. 55, no. 2842), consisting of only two folios, on Rādhā-kṛṣṇa worship. But the colophon merely says: *śri-rūpa-gosvāmyukta-sādhana-paddhati*, and not *śri-rūpa-gosvāmi-kṛta*. This may or may not be the same as *Sādhanāmṛta*, ascribed to Rūpa, in A. V. Kathvate's *Report* (1904), p. 22, no. 314. Some of Aufrecht's entries in i. 533 are merely separate