Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.80

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which purports to be its supplement, must have been composed later. His next dated work appears to be the alleged *Bṛhad-rādhā-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā* which was completed¹ in Śrāvaṇa, Śaka 1472=1550 A. D. (July-August), while his *Utkalikā-vallarī Stotra* (included in the *Stava-mālā*) is dated in Pauṣa, Śaka 1471, would give us the same date A. D. 1549-50 (December-January).² These dates would make it clear that the most flourishing period of Rūpa's literary activity falls between 1533 and 1550 A. D., but it probably began as early as 1495 A.D.