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but not a good biography—Extracts form the work 490-494.—Further particulars about the poet, 494-495.

(f) Brief accounts of Vaisnava devotees 995-511.—Nityānanda and Advaitachāryya, 495-496.—The princely ascetic Gopi Chand, 497-498.—Narottama Dās, 498-499.—Raghunāth Dās, 499-503.—Rupa and Sanātana—Çrīnivāsa, Haridās, Çyāmānanda and others, 503-511.—Bhakti Ratnākar and other biographical works, 511-514.—Theological works, 514-576.

V. The Padas or songs of the Vaisnavas, 545-545. Kriṣṅa and his uncle Kaṁsa, King of Mathura, 517-520.—The Goṣtha—The lake Kāliya—The Deva Goṣtha—The Uttara Goṣtha, 520-525. Kriṣṅa and Rādhā—First love—The meeting, 525-529.—The parting—Rādhā forsaken by Kriṣṅa—The emotions of Chaitanya Deva attributed to Rādhā—The Gaur Chandrikā and the influence of Chaitanya on the songs of Rādhā-Kriṣṅa—The human interest and the underlying spirituality—The Prabhāsa, 532-545.

The Pada Kartas—Govinda Dās—Brajabulī—Jnāna Dās—Jadunandana Dās—Jagadānanda and others, 545-557.—A List of Pada Kartās with the number of Padas they wrote, 557-559.—The excellence of their Padas—The collections—Pada Samudra—Padāmrita Samudra and other works—Pada-Kalpataru, 559-565.

Supplementary notes to Chapter V.—566-613.

The organisation of the Vaiṣṅava order—'The friend of the fallen'—Buddhists surrender themselves to Vaiṣṅava masters, 566-567. Chaitanya and his companions villified 567-568.—The title 'Dās'—Vaiṣṅava influence in the Rāmāyaṅa—in the Çakta and Çaiva literature.—Bengali, a sacred dialect to the Vaiṣṅavas, 568-577. The disputes between the Çāktas and