Krishnananda Dutta Chaudhury

{{Infobox person

| name = Krishnananda Dutta Chowdhury

| native_name = কৃষ্ণানন্দ দত্তচৌধুরী

| birth_date = c. 1490 AD

| birth_place = Andul

| death_place = c. 1570, Orissa, India

| nationality = Indian

| other_names = Krishnananda Dutta

| citizenship = Indian

| notable_works =

| successor = Madhav Ram and Kandarpa Ram Dutta Chaudhury

| movement = Krishna Naam' Movement

| children = 2

| father = Kamdev Dutta Chaudhury

| family = The feudal zamindar Dutta Chaudhury of Andul, West Bengal

| website = archive.org/details/KrishnanandaDutta

| footnotes =

}}

Krishnananda Dutta,{{Cite web|url=http://www.clayimage.co.uk/bengal/29oct.html|title=Clay Images of West Bengal|last=Robinson|first=Jim|website=www.clayimage.co.uk|access-date=2016-06-28}} born as Krishnananda Dutta Chowdhury {{Cite news|url=https://issuu.com/chhotiradhamadhava/docs/the_reappearance_of_sri_sri_radha-m|title=The Reappearance of Śrī Śrī Rādhā & Mādhava by Bhaktarūpa Dāsa|work=Issuu|access-date=2018-09-09|language=en}} (c. 1490-1570) in a Dutta Chowdhury family in Andul of the present-day Howrah district of West Bengal, India, was the 4th Chowdhury revenue collector (zamindar) there.

He regularly organised kirtans at his kirtanana-mandapa located near by his home.{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/dcc_20210214_202102/page/66/mode/2up?view=theater | title=Dutta Chaudhuri Ancestry | date=14 February 2021 }}

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In ca.1514 CE Krishnananda was initiated to krsna-nama-mantra by Nityananda Prabhu in Andul. A few years later he took sanyas and went to Puri, carrying his deities— Radha-Madhava there.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/KrishnanandaDutta|title=A Brief History Of The Deities Of Krishnananda|last=Dhruba Dutta Chaudhury|date=2018-08-26}} At the request of the king of Aul he then moved to Chhoti village{{Cite news|url=https://issuu.com/jayantisri108/docs/dr-fakir-mohan-maharaj-sri-sri-radh|title=dr-fakir-mohan-maharaj-sri-sri-radha-madhava-choti|work=Issuu|access-date=2018-09-09|language=en}} in Kendrapara district in Odisha.

He was an ancestor of Kedar Nath Dutta (Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura) and Bimala Prasad Dutta (Shrila Bhakti Shiddhanta Saraswati Thakura). The deities which Krishnananda carried to Puri from Andul are now known as the 'Ancestral deities of Bhakti Vinod Thakur'.{{Cite web|title=Native Place of Śrīla Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda - Chhoti Radha Madhava|url=http://www.chhotiradhamadhava.com/web/index.php/about/chhoti/chhoti|access-date=2020-09-22|website=www.chhotiradhamadhava.com}}