Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s1.5

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*kaustubha* of Kavikarṇapūra and *Kāvya-candrikā* of Kavicandra. Although they occasionally bring in Vaiṣṇava ideas and choose illustrative verses of a Vaiṣṇavite character, they are not directly concerned with Bhakti-rasa, but are regular rhetorical treatises composed on conventional lines (see S. K. De, *Sanskrit Poetics*, 2nd Ed. I. pp. 253-255). As such they need not be taken into account here. Jīva Gosvāmin also devotes a considerable part of his *Prīti-samdarbha* to the subject of Bhakti as a Rasa, following in general the analysis of Rūpa Gosvāmin. Jīva's treatment, however, is somewhat different, for he brings in a great deal of theological and metaphysical matter to explain the subject. The same remark applies also to his *Bhakti-samdarbha*, which occasionally refers to the topic of Bhakti as a Rasa. As he keeps closely to Rūpa's exposition of the subject in its general outline, it is not necessary for us to analyse Jīva's treatment in detail here; but it will be dealt with below in connexion with our analysis of the respective Samdarbhas. We shall content ourselves here with noting occasionally only striking points from it, relevant to our subject. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja's exposition of the doctrine of Bhakti in his *Caitanya-caritāmṛta* Madhya xix, is nothing more than a summary of Rūpa Gosvāmin's two works, and need not therefore be separately considered.