Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.70

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3 With the exception of those noted, all the works of Jīva have been printed at the Radharaman Press, Berhampur, in Bengali characters and with Bengali translation (as indicated by asterisk). Aufrecht in his entries under Jīva Gosvāmin in *i.* 207a is often misled by wrong identifications or insufficient descriptions of the original catalogues on which he had to rely. Jīva wrote only the commentary on *Brahma-saṃhitā* and not the text itself; the *Muktā-caritra* and *Stava-mālā* are by Raghunātha-dāsa and Rūpa respectively. The *Sāra-saṃgraha*, With regard to the exact dates of Rūpa, Sanātana and Jiva, no authentic information is available: but from their relation to Caitanya and from the dates of composition recorded at the end of some of their own works we can approximately fix the period of their literary activity. Rūpa Gosvāmin's two Duta-kāvyas mentioned above were probably composed before his conversion, as there is no Namaskriyā or reference to Caitanya in them. The Padyāvali, which is cited by name in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi and Nāṭaka-candrikā, was probably also an early compilation, which may have been recast or added to before the composition of these three works.¹ It does not also give any Namaskriyā or reference to Caitanya. But it gives all the eight verses of the Śikṣāṣṭaka with the subscription Śrī-bhagavataḥ. It does not also give verses from any of Rūpas dramas, which have been very profusely utilised for illustrative verses in his two works on Rasa-śāstra mentioned above, as well as in his Nāṭaka-candrikā. The Padyāvali in its turn quotes verses from the following Stotras, included in his Stava-mālā viz. Govinda-birudāvali, Vṛndāvana-govatsa-cāraṇādi-līlā and Mathurāṣṭaka, which must have been even earlier. Some