The book has
been put together in recent times, and takes the reader through the
preliminary consecration, invocations and introductory ceremonies, the
rise and progress of the mutual love of R??dh?? and K.rish.na, and winds
up with the usual closing and valedictory hymns.
Before beginning an analysis of this collection so remarkable from many
points of view, it will probably be of some assistance even to those
who have studied the history of Vaish.navism, if I state briefly the
leading points in the life of Chaitanya, and the principal features of
the religion which he developed, rather than actually founded.
Bisambhar (Vishvambhara) Mi??r was the youngest son of Jagann??th Mi??r, a
Brahman, native of the district of Sylhet in Eastern Bengal, who had
emigrated before the birth of his son to Nadiya (Nabadw?®pa), the
capital of Bengal. [Footnote: The facts which here follow are taken
from the "Chaitanyacharit??mrita," a metrical life of Chaitanya, the
greater part of which was probably written by a contemporary of the
teacher himself.
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