Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.55

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(ii) Vaiṣṇava Kāvyas: (a) *Gopāla-campū*¹ a voluminous Campū in prose and verse, divided into Pūrva in 33 Pūraṇas and Uttara in 37 Pūraṇas, which give a poetical-mystical treatment of the life of Kṛṣṇa. (b) *Saṃkalpa-kalpa-druma*, a half-philosophical, half-poetical work on Vaiṣṇava doctrine, illustrated by references to the Kṛṣṇa-lilā, in three parts, respectively entitled Janmādi-lilā, Nitya-lilā, and Sarvartu-lilā, with a concluding Phala-niṣpatti. The work must have been written at Vṛndāvana when Jiva was very old (*vṛndāranye jarañ jīvah*, i. 4), even after the completion of the two parts of his *Gopāla-campū*, which are mentioned (in i. 264). (c) *Mādhava-mahotsava*, a Kāvya in nine Ullāsas, dealing with the Abhiṣeka of Rādhā by Kṛṣṇa and the festivity consequent upon it.² (d) *Gopāla-birudāvali*³ a small Biruda-kāvya of panegyrics on the Vṛndāvana-lilā of Kṛṣṇa.