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Bhaktacarana Dasa. 
As Mathuramaggala appears to be a supplement of Rasakallola 
that work will be taken up here, though strictly it might be somewhat 
later than Upendra Bhanja’s poems. The author calls himself Bhakta- 
carana Dasa. No traditions are available about him. He repeatedly 
calls himself a bairagi. 1 He probably visited Puri, for he mentions 
the “ Gundicabije ” of Jagannatha (10th Chanda, stanza 6). The name 
Bhaktacarana seems to be an adopted name after initiation into 
Vaisnavism. 
• • 
The Mathuramaggala is a poem in 30 Chandas with 14 to 106 
stanzas in each. The subject-matter is the exploits of £ri-Krsna at 
Mathura. These exploits have been described in Rasakallola, 25th to 33rd 
Chandas, but is here amplified into 29 cantos. Hence this poem appears 
to be later, though from the prominence still given to G5pls generally, 
it could not have been much later. Its date might be approximately put 
to the first quarter of the 18th century. In versification and sentiment 
the author appears to have closely imitated the Rasakalloja. The 
verses are simpler, and less loaded with Sanskrit words ; but have on 
the whole much less poetical excellences than in Dinakrsna’s poem. 
The author is rather peculiar in heaping similes to illustrate the 
same idea, an example of which is quoted below 2 :— 
crNfsft gau I 
TO ^Tff ¥3 I 
3PsTT *fN I \° I 
tot afrrfr *jc5 i 
‘fta iN cgx i 
fxiT153 ifti- RR | 
to iroft Kfrr cm i! ii 
WIT l 
sf 
% jjjd^ i 
Math. Mag. 8th Chanda, p. 23. 
“ Krsna said—“Hear, oh ye ladies! Can bhaslcara (the ordinary 
camphor) smell as well as Qri-Jcarpura (the essence of camphor) ; can 
1 Math. Mag. 3rd Ch. 2G; 13th Ch. 16; 15th Ch. 22; 18th Ch. 16; 23rd Ch. 
54; 29th Ch. 38. 
8 For another example of such heaping, see 9th Chanda 11-15, p. 26. 
