Jagat

View from Vindhyavasini temple in Hardwar district, UK. Bhaktivinoda Thakur writes in his memoirs about a book, Hari-bhakti-kalpa-latikā , that fell into his hands while in Jagannath Puri. Here is the relevant paragraph: I did not yet have full mastery of Sanskrit grammar. While in Calcutta I had read Sanskrit literature with the help of [Ishwar Chandra] Vidyasagar Mahashay and Boro Dada [Dwijendranath Tagore]. After that, I had also studied a bit in Midnapore, and in Dinagepore and Motihari also, but in Puri I studied books thoroughly. After finishing the Bhāgavata I copied the Ṣaṭ Sandarbha and read it. Then I copied and read the Vedānta commentary, Govinda-bhāṣya , written by Baladeva. Then I read the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu . Thereafter I made a copy of the Hari-bhakti-kalpa-latikā . Little by little I also began to write in Sanskrit myself. I wrote a book in Sanskrit entitled Datta-kaustubha while in Puri. Many of the verses of the Śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṁhitā were also composed at t...