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Radha Vallabha Despite his importance historically for the Radha Vallabha sampradaya, not much is known about the life of Hit Dhruvdas. The only biographical information comes from Bhagavant Mudita, who was his junior contemporary. Bhagavant Mudita wrote a small book glorifying all the disciples and followers of Hit Harivansh Goswami called Rasika Ananya Mal . We know from Priya Das’s commentary to the Bhakta Maal that Bhagavanta Mudita was initiated by Haridas Goswami, the Mahant of Govinda Devji temple at the time. In the first verse to Rasika Ananya Maal (“A Garland of Exclusive Rasika Devotees”) he bows first to Chaitanya and Nityananda, but then turns to Harivansh and his followers. We only have one other book by Bhagavant Mudita, which is a translation of the Vṛndāvana-śataka , or the 17th śataka of Prabodhananda’s Vṛndāvana-mahimāmṛta , which is dated 1650. This book also contains several verses to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Dhruvdasji was born in a well-to-do Kayas...

Prabodhananda Saraswati: From Benares to Braj (Part I) Prabodhananda Saraswati: From Benares to Braj (Part II) Prabodhananda, Hit Harivansh and the Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi (Part I) Prabodhananda, Hit Harivansh and the Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi (Part II) Prabodhananda in the works of the Radha-vallabhi school Rather unexpectedly for those who only know Prabodhananda in the light of the Gaudiya school and CCA, much light is shed on his identity in the primarily Brajabhasha works of authors of the Radha-vallabhi sect. Hariram Vyas of Orcha, a contemporary of Harivams who had connections to the Gaudiya school through Madhavendra Puri, but whose devotion to Harivams far outstripped that which he felt for Rupa, Sanatan or Chaitanya,( 52 ) poem in praise of Prabodhananda. There he is described as he is best known to the Radha-vallabhi school -- the author of a number of rasika works on devotion to Radha and Krishna in Vrindavan. Vyas indicates that the particular name of the deity to whom ...