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srinatha cakravarti, ara uddhava dasa

jitamitra, kasthakata-jagannatha-dasa

SYNONYMS

srinatha cakravarti—of the name Srinatha Cakravarti; ara—and; uddhava dasa—of the name Uddhava dasa; jitamitra—of the name Jitamitra; kasthakata jagannatha-dasa—of the name Kasthakata Jagannatha dasa.

The fifteenth branch was Srinatha Cakravarti; the sixteenth, Uddhava; the seventeenth, Jitamitra; and the eighteenth, Jagannatha dasa.

PURPORT

The Sakha-nirnaya, verse 13, mentions Srinatha Cakravarti as a reservoir of all good qualities and an expert in the service of Lord Krsna.

Similarly, verse 35 mentions Uddhava dasa as being greatly qualified in distributing love of Godhead to everyone.

The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, verse 202, mentions Jitamitra as the gopi named Syama-manjari.

Jitamitra wrote a book entitled Krsna-mayurya.

Jagannatha dasa was a resident of Vikramapura, near Dacca.

His birthplace was the village known as Kasthakata or Kathadiya.

His descendants now reside in villages known as Adiyala, Kamarapada and Paikapada.

He established a temple of Yasomadhava.

The worshipers in this temple are the Gosvamis of Adiyala.

As one of the sixty-four sakhis, he was formerly an assistant of Citradevi-gopi named Tilakini.

The following is a list of his descendants: Ramanrsimha, Ramagopala, Ramacandra, Sanatana, Muktarama, Gopinatha, Goloka, Harimohana Siromani, Rakhalaraja, Madhava and Laksmikanta.

The Sakha-nirnaya mentions that Jagannatha dasa preached the Hare Krsna movement in the district or state of Tripura.