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in a vision. He further gave him an image of Krishna with the title of 
Radha Vallabh, which on his arrival at Brindaban was set up by Hari Vans 
in a temple that he founded between the Jugal and the Koliya Ghats on 
the hank of the Jamuna. Originally he had belonged to the Madhvacharya 
Sampraclaya and from them and the Nimbaraks, who also claim him, his 
doctrine and ritual were professedly derived. But in consequence of the 
mysterious incident, by which he had been induced to forego his intention 
of leading a celibate life and take to himself two new wives ; or rather 
in consequence of his strong natural passions, which he was unable to 
suppress and therefore invented a fiction to excuse, his devotion was all 
directed not to Krishna himself, except in a very secondary degree, but to 
his fabled mistress Radha, whom he deified as the goddess of lust. So 
abominable a system was naturally viewed at first with no little amazement, 
as is clear from the language of the Bhakt Mala, which is as follows : 
II *n?r ll 
C\ 
%F3i snfr t ii 
Iff I 
fqfyj ??vNl qarat I! 
fqfa srft fra •sr ; rai snrard n 
^fbirai^T ’spraf %it; qtwf*r f i 
fifa SSrT %F3i SiTpT f n 
Translation of the text of Nahha Ji. 
“ The Gosain Sri Hari Vans : who can understand all at once his method 
of devotion ? with whom the feet of blessed Radha were the highest object 
of worship ; a most staunch-souled devotee ; who made himself the page in 
waiting on the divine pair in their bower of love ; who gloried in the enjoy¬ 
ment of the remnants of all that was offered at their shrine ; a servant who 
never pleaded obligation or dispensation ; a votary of incomparable zeal. 
Account him blessed who follows in the path of Vyasa’s great son, the Gosain 
Sri Hari Vans: who can understand all at once his method of devotion ?” 
In the gloss, or supplement of Priya Has, the same sentiment is ex¬ 
panded and a reference made to the legend of the Brahman and his two 
daughters. 
