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abridgement of the Sri Bhdgavat, and the Vri/Ja Vilds Vernanam, an account 

 of Krishna's sports in Vrinddvan. Sanatan was the author of the Hari 

 Bhakti VMs, a work on the nature of the deity and devotion, the Rdsd- 

 JwnVa /Smf/Aw, a work of high authority on the same subjects, the Bhdgavat 

 Amrita, which contains the observances of the sect, and the Siddhdnla Sara, 

 a commentary on the 10th Chapter of the Sri Bhdgavat. Of the other six Go- 

 sainSi Jiva wrote the Bhdgavat Sanderbha, the Bhakti Siddhdnta^ Gopdla 

 Champu, and Upadesdmrita^ and Raghunat'h Das, the Manassikshd and 

 Gunalesa Suk'hara. These are all in Sanscrit. In Bengali, the JRdga 

 Maya Koiia, a work on subduing the passions, is ascribed to RtJPA, and 

 Rasamaya Kalikd, on devotedness to Krishna, to Sanatan. Other Sanscrit 

 works are enumerated amongst the authorities of this sect, as the 

 Chaitanya Chandrodaya^ a drama, Stava Mdldy Stavdmrita Lahari, by 

 VrswANATH Chakraveeti; Bhajandmi'ita, Sri Smarana Derpana, by Ram- 

 CHANDRAKavirdJa; the Gopipremdmrita, a comment on the Krish?iaKerndmrita, 

 by Krishna Das Kavirdja ; and the Krishiia Kirfana, by Govind Das and 

 VidyXpati. — The biographical accounts of Chaitanya have been already 

 specified in our notice of the Chaitanya Charitdmrita, and besides those, there 

 enumerated, w6 have the Chaitanya Mangala^ a history of the saint, by 

 Lochana, and the Gauraganbddesa dipikd, an account of his chief disciples. The 

 principal works of common reference, and written in Bengali, though thickly 

 interspersed with Sancrit texts, are the Updsandchandrdmrita, a ritual, by Lal 

 Das, the Fremahhakti Chandrikd, by Thakur Gosain, the Pdshanda Dalana, 

 a refutation of other sects, by Radhamadhava, and the Vaishnava Verddhana, 

 by Daivaki Nandana. There are no doubt many other works circulating 

 amongst this sect, which is therefore possessed of a voluminous body of 

 literature of its own.* 



* The particulars of the above are taken chiefly from the Chaitanya Charitamrxta, 

 others from the Vpdsand C/iandrdmrita, and a few from the list giyen by Mr. Ward^-Account of 

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