1878.] 
F. S. Growse —Mathura Notes. 
101 
%T qifl liWsfi qi%‘ 
\J C\ 
5*jf JH TTT^ ^TT i rm%T II 
Translation. 
“ Would you know the one point in a thousand of Sri Hit Ji’s ways ? 
he adored Radha first and after her Krishna. A most strange and un¬ 
natural fashion, that none could even faintly comprehend save by his favour. 
He obliterated all distinction between obligation and dispensation ; his Be¬ 
loved was in his heart; he lived only as her servant, singing the praises of 
the divinity night and day. All the faithful know his many edifying and 
holy actions ; why tell and repeat them since they are famous already. 
“ He left his home and came ; his passion for Radha and Krishna had 
so grown : but you must know Hari had given an order to a wealthy Brah¬ 
man : * Bestow your two daughters in marriage, taking my name, and know 
that their issue shall be famous throughout the world. By their means 
my worship shall spread among my faithful jDeople, a path for the pathless, 
of high renown.’ Obedient to the loving order he went home ; the delight 
of all was past telling, for it was more than the mind could even conceive. 
Radha’s dear spouse gave the gracious command : ‘ Publish abroad my 
worship and the delights of my sylvan abode.’ He drank in with his very 
eyes the essence of bliss and gave it to every client who supported the cause 
of the female divinity. Night and day imbibing the honeyed draught of 
sweet song and cherishing it in his soul, with no thought but for Syama 
and Syam. How is it possible to declare such incomparable merit p the 
soul is enraptured at the sound more than at that of any other name.” 
By his later wives he had two sons Ban Chand and Kishan Chand, of 
whom the latter built a temple to Radha Mohan, which is still in the pos¬ 
session of his descendants. The former was the ancestor of the present 
Gosains of the temple of Radha Yallabh, the chief shrine of the sect. This 
was built by one of his disciples, a Kayath named Sundar Das who held 
the appointment of Treasurer at Delhi. One of the pillars in the front 
gives the date as samhat 1683. An earlier inscription, of 1641, was no¬ 
ticed by Prof. Wilson, but this would seem to have been over the gateway 
leading into the outer court, which since then has fallen down and been 
removed. The temple is in itself a handsome building and is further of 
special architectural interest as the last example of the early eclectic style. 
The ground plan is much the same as in the temple of Haridev at Gobar- 
dhan (described in my Mathura Memoir, Part I, page 172) and the work 
is of the same character, but carried out on a larger scale. The nave has 
an eastern fa£ade, 34 feet broad which, as will be seen from the accom- 
