Visvanatha Chakravarti
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Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakur (
His initiating guru was Sriyuta Krsnacarana Cakravarti of Saiyadabad, Murshidabad, who was fourth in the line from Narottama Dasa. Visvanatha Chakravarti resided with his guru for many years and composed many books during that time.
His studies of grammar, poetry and rhetoric were completed while he still lived at Nadia. There is a story that he defeated one conquering pandit while he himself was still only a student. From his childhood he was completely indifferent to household life. In order to keep him at home, his father had him married at a very young age. However, he finally renounced family life and came to live at
Sri Chakravarti Thakura took up residence with Mukunda Dasa, who lived in
He used to worship a deity named Golokananda. He was also known by the pen name Harivallabha Das, under which he wrote a number of Vaishnava songs. Most notably his famous song Sri Gurvashtakam,[1] is sung every morning during Mangal Arati around 04:30 AM in every ISKCON temple throughout the world.[2]
He composed the following books on
- Vraja-riti-cintamani
- Camatkara-candrika
- Prema-samputa
- Gitavali
- Subodhini, a commentary on the Alankara-Kaustabha
- Ananda-Candrika, a commentary on Ujjvala-Nilamani
- A commentary on the Gopala Tapani Upanishad
- Stavamrta-Lahri
- Sri-Krishna-bhavanamrta-mahakavya
- Sri Bhagavatamrta Kana
- Sri Ujjavala-nilamani-kirana
- Sri Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu-bindu
- Dana-Keli Kaumudi-tika
- Sri Lalita-madhava-nataka-tika
- Sri Caitanya-caritamrta-tika(incomplete)
- Brahma-Samhita-tika
- Sarartha-Varsini tika
- Sarartha-darsini tika
He died on the Vasanta-pancami in the month of Magha.
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