Vrindavan Das, born 1507 A.D. Cribasa’s angina. 464 RENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [Chap
all parts of the world are bound to be superstitious,
but in Hinduism the gross forms of worship are™
always in touch with the superior light of pure
faith and thus without disturbing the faith of
the illiterate, Hinduism makes its vast religious
system a homogeneous whole in which the lowest
represents merely a step in the ladder that reaches
the highest. This catholic trait in the character of
Chaitanya Deva 1s deliberately omitted or ignored
by many of his subsequent biographers, who want- ~
ed to represent him as the leader and _ upholder of
their own party,—the god of a special class of ©
men and not the prophet for all that he was |
undoubtedly.
(b) Chaitanya Bhagabata by Vrindavan Das.
After Govinda Déas’s account of the few
years of Chaitanya’s life, the next biographical
work about the great Vaishnava prophet was written
by Vrindavan Das born in 1507 A.D. He was
a grandson of Crinivas, whose brother Crivasa’s ]
devotion to Chaitanya Deva is well known to the
Vaishava community. The spacious lawn before .
Criv asa’s house was the favourite baunt of the”
Sankirtan parties led by Chaitanya Deva ; many a.
night from the rise of the evening star on the western |
horizon till the appearance of the sun, the deep |
chanting of God’s name was heard accompanied —
with the unceasing sounds of hod and karta/ in k
this historic ‘angina’ of Crivasa, but Vrindavan
Das was only two years old when Chaitanya Deva
left Navadwipa for good. The biographer regrets i
in many passages of his work that he had not 1170
the good fortune of seeing Chaitanya Deva.
