आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

Author of the most influential version of
the Chaitanya-Charitramrta (“Nectar
of Chaitanya’s Deeds”), an account of
the life of the Bengali poet-saint
Chaitanya, written about ninety years
after Chaitanya’s death. Krishnadas’s
text is the latest and most developed
biography of Chaitanya and focuses
mainly on Chaitanya’s later life, particularly his visit to Brindavan, the northern
Indian village were the god Krishna
is supposed to have spent his
childhood. This text is marked by the
philosophical influence of the three
Goswamis—Rupa, Sanatana, and
Jiva—whose ideas played a major role in
shaping Chaitanya’s religious followers,
the Gaudiya Vaishnavas. As with the
other traditional accounts of Chaitanya’s
life, this text does not purport to give
an “objective” biography, it is rather
a hagiography (an idealizing and
idolizing portrait) written by a
passionate devotee (bhakta).