Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.72

c7.s5.72

noticed in Mitra, Notices, iv. pp. 303-4, no. 1722, appears to be a late metrical compilation on the Bhakti-rasa-śāstra wrongly ascribed to Jiva. In its opening and concluding verses Jiva's name does not appear; it is given only in the colophon. The opening verses, again, are directly plagiarised from other well known works, e.g. the first verse=verse no. 4 of Rūpa's Saṃkṣepa-bhāgavatāmṛta; the second=one of the concluding verses of Raghunātha-dāsa's Muktā-caritra etc. The authenticity of the attribution of the work to Jiva, therefore, is questionable, especially as its contents merely summarise well known views. Aufrecht in i. 208a assigns the Gopāla-campū to one Jivarāja, son of Kāmarāja (not Kāmarūpa) Sūri; this is obviously a mistake, which originated from Mitra's Notices, i, p. 40, no. 72. Several other apocryphal works are sometimes ascribed to Jiva, but their genuineness is extremely doubtful.