:Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

File:Ganga mata math (crop).jpg at Ganga Mata Math in Puri]]

The religious hagiographies of Gauḍīya sampradāya are the only sources available for the reconstruction of Caitanya's life. The hagiographies (in Sanskrit and Bengali) consider Caitanya to be an avatāra of Kr̥ṣṇa, Svayaṁ Bhagavān, Rādhā-Kr̥ṣṇa (joint and separate), Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, and Jagannātha. A canonical narrative was accepted by the Gauḍīya community in the early 1600s via the Caitanya Caritāmr̥ta of Kr̥ṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, which has been described as the "final word" on Gauḍīya history and theology.{{cite book |last=Stewart |first=Tony |title=Oxford Bibliographies Online in Hinduism |date=2014 |chapter=Caitanya}}

Chaitanya was born in a Brahmin family as Viśvambhara Miśra aka Nimāi, the second son of Jagannātha Miśra and his wife Śacī Devī, the daughter of Nilambara Chakrabarti, both Brahmins of Sylhet region.{{cite Banglapedia|article=Chaitanya, Sri|author=Stewart, Tony K}} Jagannātha Miśra's family were from the village of Dhakadakshin in Srihatta (Sylhet) (now in Bangladesh). The ruins of their ancestral home still survive in present-day Bangladesh.{{Cite web|title=Chaitanya and his age|last=Sen|first=Dinesh Chandra|url=https://archive.org/details/chaitanyahisage00senduoft|access-date=16 August 2020|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}{{sfn|Nair|2007|p=87}}{{Cite book |last=Valpey |first=Kenneth |title=Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism Online |publisher=Brill |year=2018 |editor-last=Jacobsen |editor-first=Knut A. |chapter=Caitanya |editor-last2=Basu |editor-first2=Helene |editor-last3=Malinar |editor-first3=Angelika |editor-last4=Narayanan |editor-first4=Vasudha}} The hagiographies of Caitanya portray his birth as a divine event and state that it predicted his future mission of propagating harināma saṃkīrtana in Kali Yuga.

The accounts of Caitanya's childhood are depicted to be reminiscient of Kr̥ṣṇa's childhood exploits. While still a student, his father died, and he soon married Lakṣmīpriyā. He travelled to east Bengal to become a scholar and support his family, but his wife died in his absence. He then married Viṣṇupriyā, the daughter of paṇḍit Sanātana Miśra. Viśvambhara, also known as Nimāi Paṇḍit, was a promising Sanskrit scholar and once defeated Keśava Bhaṭṭa of the Nimbārka school in a debate on Sanskrit prosody in an example of "superhuman erudition".

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In 1508-1509 he left Nabadvip to go to Gaya to perform śrāddha, a ritual homage to his dead father. There, he met an ascetic named Īśvara Purī, who initiated him using a mantra for Kr̥ṣṇa worship. After this meeting Viśvambhara abandoned all scholarly and domestic pursuits and had no interests except an intense desire to hear and speak of Kr̥ṣṇa. Within a year he took a vow of saṃnyāsa (renunciation) and changed his name to Kr̥ṣṇa Caitanya under his guru Keśava Bhāratī. His mother then asked him to at least live in the city of Puri so that he would not be too far from Bengal.

After becoming a renunciate he spent his time converting and instructing followers in the tenets of Kr̥ṣṇa bhakti and engaging in communal saṁkīrtana. Sources state he defeated and converted theological opponents (particularly followers of Advaita Vedānta) via debate or divine intervention in the typical Indian hagiographical pattern of digvijaya. He spent two months in Vrindavan in c. 1515 where he instructed Sanātana Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmi; additionally the visit serves to confirm Caitanya's identity as Kr̥ṣṇa as he had raptures upon recognizing sites familiar to Kr̥ṣṇa. The last two decades of his life were spent in Puri where his ecstatic seizures yearning for Kr̥ṣṇa and his consorts, mainly Rādhā, intensified. He died c. 1528-1534.

Works on Chaitanya:{{sfn|Mukherjee|1999|pp=65–66, 174, 280}}{{sfn|Manring|2005|pp=34–42, 44}}[https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/127571/14/14_chapter%206.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626032050/https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/127571/14/14_chapter%206.pdf |date=26 June 2020 }}.{{cite book |author-last=Mamoni |author-first=Sarma |title=History of Vaishnavite cultures in Assam and Bengal a comparative study |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10603/127571 |chapter=Chapter 14 |pages=253–255 |hdl=10603/127571 |quote=Note, Sarma Mamoni is a researcher at Gauhati University under Chakraborty Amalendu. }}

• Krsna-Caitanya-Caritamrta ({{c.}} 1513 or 1536–1540; Sanskrit)

: By Murari Gupta. Known as a kadcha or chronicle. Chaitanya's Navadwipa līla and each panca-tattva presented as a form of the Lord. Caitanya went for the first time to Murari's house at Navadwipa. Murari's standing and reputation for learning gave his biographical materials great weight in the Vaishnava community. This Kadcha (notes) became the guiding lines for other biographers.

• Kadcha or chronicle (Sanskrit)

: By Svarupa Damodara. He was the personal secretary of Chaitanya. Details the life of Caitanya.

• Govindadaser Kadcha (Bengali)

: By Govinda Dāsa who accompanied Chaitanya on his tour of Deccan. This poem describes their experiences on the journey and some imaginary events in the life of Chaitanya as well as his ideas and philosophy. It is another significant biographical work, but it was regarded as controversial because of the authenticity.

• Chaitanya Bhagavata ({{c.}} 1535 or 1546–1550; Bengali)

: By Vrindavana Dasa Thakura. Three parts: Adi-Khanda, Mādhya-Khanda, and Antya-Khanda. Chaitanya's earlier life, activities, early movement in Navadwip.

• Krsna-Caitanya-caritra-mahakavya ({{c.}} 1535)

: By Kavi Karnapura (Paramanand Sen).

• Krsna-Caitanya-candrodaya-natakam ({{c.}} 1535 – 1570s)

: By Kavi Karnapura. Based on Murari Gupta's Krsna-Caitanya-Caritamrta. When Karnapura was a small child, he interacted with Chaitanya personally.

• Caitanya-candrodaya-natakam ({{c.}} 1538 or 1540 or 1572 or 1579; Sanskrit)

: By Kavi Karnapura (Paramanand Sen). Dramatic play in ten acts of Chaitanya's life.

• Caitanya-caritāmṛta-kavya ({{c.}} 1542 – late 1500s; Sanskrit)

: By Kavi Karnapura (Paramanand Sen). A long biographical poem on Chaitanya's life and acts.

• Caitanya-caritāmṛta ({{c.}} 1557 or 1580 or 1615; Bengali)

: By Krishnadasa Kaviraja. Three parts: Adi-lila, Madhya-lila, and Antya-lila. Massive authoritative composition of Chaitanya's biography and teachings. According to Manring, he draws liberally from previous writers (poets, theologians and biographers) as he deems correct, omitting Kavi Karnapura's works perceived as threatening Rupa's authority.

• Caitanya-Mangala ({{c.}} 1560 or late 1500s; Bengali)

: By Jayananda. Nine parts: Adikhanda, Nadiyakhanda, Vairagyakhanda, Sannyaskhanda, Utkalkhanda, Prakashkhanda, Tirthakhanda, Vijaykhanda, and Uttarkhanda. Biographical poem in the form of a narrative play focused on Chaitanya's godly image. It is the only work in which his death is mentioned. Introduction mentions several previous biographers, of whom only Vrindavan is known. Written for the common people (not devotees).

• Chaitanya Mangala ({{c.}} 1560–66 or 1575)

: By Lochana Dasa ({{aka}} Trilocan Dasa). Four parts: Sutrakhanda, Adikhanda, Madhyakhanda, and Antyakhanda. A narrative play depicting Chaitanya's childhood activities and his human side without highlighting any divine matters to make it popular. Influenced by Murari Gupta's Krsna-Caitanya-Caritamrta and Vrindavana Dasa Thakura's Chaitanya Bhagavata as well as the Mahabharata and different Puranas.

• Chaitanya-chandrodaya-kaumudi (Bengali)

: By Premadas (Purushottam Mishra). A verse adaptation to Kavi Karnapura's Caitanya-candrodaya-natakam drama.

• Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika ({{c.}} 1576)

: By Kavi Karnapura (Paramanand Sen).

• Chaitanya-samhita (Bengali)

: By Bhagirath Bandhu. Work follows the tradition of agama or tantric texts in its presentation as a story told by Shiva to his spouse.

• Chaitanya-vilasa ({{c.}} 1500s; Odia)

: By Madhava Dasa. A short poetical work in ten sections dealing with the life of Chaitanya. The poet probably came into contact with the saint when the latter came to Puri.

• Gauranga-vijay ({{c.}} 1500s)

: By Chundamani dasa. Biographical epic, believed to have been written in three volumes, only part of the first volume still exists. It contains some information about Chaitanya, Nityananda and Madhavendra Puri not found elsewhere.

• Sriman-mahaprabhor-asta-kaliya-lila-smarana-mangala-stotram ({{c.}} late 1600s; Sanskrit)

: By Visvanatha Chakravarti. Eleven sutras (seed verses) describing the eternal eight-fold daily pastimes of the fair-complexioned Lord.

• Sri Gauranga-Lilamrta ({{c.}} late 1600s – 1700s; Bengali)

: By Krishna Dasa (disciple of Visvanatha Chakravarti). Expounded on his guru's eleven sutras, often quoting verses from Vrindavana Dasa Thakura's Chaitanya Bhagavata, plus songs by Narahari Ghanashyama (author of Bhakti-Ratnakara) and Lochana Dasa (author of Chaitanya-Mangala).

• Caitanya-upanisad

: A book that is a part of the Atharvaveda which offers overwhelming evidence of Chaitanya's identity as the Supreme Lord and Yuga Avatara.

• Sri Caitanya-caranamrta Bhasva (1887)

: By Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Commentary on an original handwritten manuscript of the Caitanya-upanisad from one pandita, Madhusudana Maharaja, of Sambala-Pura.

• Amrita-pravaha-bhashya ({{c.}} late 1800s – early 1900s; Sanskrit)

: By Bhaktivinoda Thakur. Commentary on Caitanya-upanisad.

• Anubhāsya (1915)

: By Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Commentary on Krishnadasa Kaviraja's Caitanya-caritāmṛta

• Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (1974; English)

: By A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami in English with original Bengali and Sanskrit. Commentary on Krishnadasa Kaviraja's Caitanya-caritāmṛta, based on Bhaktivinoda Thakur's Amrita-pravaha-bhashya and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati's Anubhāsya commentaries.

• Krishna-Caitanya, His Life and His Teachings (2014; English; {{ISBN|978-91-981318-1-9}})

: By Walther Eidlitz, originally written in German - Kṛṣṇa-Caitanya: sein Leben und seine Lehre, and published by [https://libris.kb.se/bib/650114?tab2=subj Stockholm University], 1968, as a part of the scientific series "Stockholm studies in comparative religion".

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The Śikṣāṣṭaka is the only work accepted to be composed by Caitanya. The poem expounds upon the subjects of harināmajapa, saṁkīrtana, the relationship between individual souls and Kr̥ṣṇa, devotional submission to Kr̥ṣṇa, and Caitanya's personal virahabhakti. Scholars debate the extent to which Caitanya played in the development of the complex Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theology.

{{See also|Bengal Renaissance}}

Chaitanya's influence on the cultural legacy in Bengal, Odisha and Manipur, has been significant,{{cite web |title=Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu |url=http://www.krishna.com/who-lord-chaitanya |access-date=2 November 2020 |archive-date=7 June 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020607045307/http://www.krishna.com/printarticles/Lord_Chaitanya.html |url-status=live }} with many residents performing daily worship to him as an avatar of Krishna. Some attribute to him a Renaissance in Bengal,[http://www.bengal-studies-conference.org/ Bengal Studies Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217014530/http://bengal-studies-conference.org/ |date=17 December 2014 }} "History says that the Bengali people experienced the renaissance: not only once but also twice in the course of history. Bengalis witnessed the first renaissance in the 16th century when Hossain Shah and Sri Chaitanya’s idealism influenced a sect of the upper literal class of people" different from the more well-known 19th-century Bengal Renaissance. Salimullah Khan (b. 1958), a noted Bangladeshi linguist, maintains, "Sixteenth-century is the time of Chaitanya Dev, and it is the beginning of Modernism in Bengal. The concept of 'humanity' that came into fruition is contemporaneous with that of Europe".{{cite web |title=Chaitanya Mahaprabhu |url=https://gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com/caitanya-mahaprabhu/ |access-date=2 November 2020 |archive-date=17 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117000851/http://gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com/caitanya-mahaprabhu/ |url-status=live }}

Noted Bengali biographical film on Chaitanya, Nilachaley Mahaprabhu (1957), was directed by Kartik Chattopadhyay (1912–1989).{{cite book|last1=Sur|first1=Ansu|last2=Goswami|first2=Abhijit|title=Bengali Film Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R-hkAAAAMAAJ|page=96|year=1999|publisher=Nandan, West Bengal Film Centre}} A Bengali film based on Chaitanya's demise, Lawho Gouranger Naam Re, will be directed by Srijit Mukherji where Parambrata Chatterjee will be seen portraying Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.{{cite news |last1=Chakraborty |first1=Shamayita |title=Parambrata to play Gourango in Srijit's next; will also sing in the film |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/parambrata-to-play-gourango-in-srijits-next-will-also-sing-in-the-film/articleshow/84485145.cms |access-date=31 March 2022 |work=The Times of India |date=16 July 2021 |language=en |archive-date=31 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331172159/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/news/parambrata-to-play-gourango-in-srijits-next-will-also-sing-in-the-film/articleshow/84485145.cms |url-status=live }}

File:Yogapith, Mayapur.jpg|alt=A white ornate structure with a pyramidal pointed dome standing on the bank of a pond and surrounded by trees|Yogapith temple at Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's birthsite established in the 1880s by Bhaktivinoda Thakur in Mayapur, West Bengal

File:Chaitanya sankirtan.jpg|Chaitanya and Nityananda are shown performing a 'kirtan' in the streets of Nabadwip, Bengal.

File:Panca-tattva Altar.jpg|Pancha Tattva deities installed on a Vaishnava altar. From left to right: Advaita Acharya, Nityananda, Chaitanya, Gadadhara Pandita, Srivasa.

File:Mahaprabhu 103.jpg|Murti of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

File:Idols of Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Jagannath, Balarama, Subhadra and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium (ISKCON Mayapur) in Mayapur, Nadia, West Bengal, India.jpg|Deities of Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Jagannath, Balarama, Subhadra and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (in middle), at the ISKCON Durgapur Temple.

File:Gaura Nitai shrine at ISKCON temple, Delhi.jpg|Gaura Nitai shrine at ISKCON Temple Delhi.

File:Chaitanya with dog - Indian Museum, Kolkata R.14277 S.223.jpg|Chaitanya with a dog, Murshidabad, 19th century CE

File:Chaitanya's Life and Teachings p28.png|Pratap Rudra bowing to Chaitanya, an early 20th century print copy of a painting held by the Zamindar of Kunjaghata

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