Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c8.s3.74

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² We have stated that Rūpa Gosvāmin himself compiled an anthology of Vaiṣṇava poems, the Padyāvalī. It contains about four hundred lyrical pieces culled from different sources. But the six hundred and fifty (or more) poetical quotations in these two works of his, by themselves, constitute a varied and exhaustive anthology of Vaiṣṇava devotional literature.—It is doubtful if the recently printed Bhakti-rasāmṛta-śeṣa (see above, p. 158) is the lost work of the same name by Jīva Gosvāmin. The thirteen prologue-verses do not contain the name of the author, nor is it given anywhere in the body of the text or the colophon. The date of composition (although the editor thinks that it is the date of copying of the MS) is given as Śaka 1618 (śaka varṣakartu-vidhau)=1796 A.D. ; but Jīva could not have been alive at the time. The work deals, not with Bhakti-rasa, but with Kāvya-rasa,