Disappearance Day of Śrī Rāmacandra Kavirāja

Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila 11.51 (1973 Edition). All Synonyms, Translation and Purport by his Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada:

কংসারি সেন, রামসেন, রামচন্দ্ৰ কবিরাজ ।

গোবিন্দ, শ্রীরঙ্গ, মুকুন্দ, তিন কবিরাজ ॥ ৫১ ॥

kaṁsāri sena, rāmasena, rāmacandra kavirāja

govinda, śrīraṅga, mukunda, tina kavirāja

SYNONYMS

kaṁsāri sena—of the name Kaṁsāri Sena; rāmasena—of the name Rāmasena; rāmacandrakavirāja—of the name Rāmacandra Kavirāja; govinda—of the name Govinda; śrīraṅga—of the name Śrīraṅga; mukunda—of the name Mukunda; tinakavirāja—all three are Kavirājas, or physicians.

TRANSLATION

The fifty-eighth great devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu was Kaṁsāri Sena, the fifty-ninth was Rāmasena, the sixtieth was Rāmacandra Kavirāja, and the sixty-first, sixty-second and sixty-third were Govinda, Śrīraṅga and Mukunda, who were all physicians.

PURPORT

Śrī Rāmacandra Kavirāja, the son of Khaṇḍavāsi Cirañjīva and Sunanda, was a disciple of Śrīnivāsa Ācārya and the most intimate friend of Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, who prayed several times for his association. His youngest brother was Govinda Kavirāja. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī very much appreciated Śrī Rāmacandra Kavirāja’s great devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa and therefore gave him the title Kavirāja. Śrī Rāmacandra Kavirāja, who was perpetually disinterested in family life, greatly assisted in the preaching work of Śrīnivāsa Ācārya and Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. He resided at first in Śrīkhaṇḍa but later in the village of Kumāra-nagara on the bank of the Ganges. Govinda Kavirāja was the brother of Rāmacandra Kavirāja and youngest son of Cirañjīva of Śrīkhaṇḍa. Although at first a sākta, or worshiper of goddess Durgā, he was later initiated by Śrīnivāsa Ācārya Prabhu. Govinda Kavirāja also resided first in Śrīkhaṇḍa and then in Kumāra-nagara, but later he moved to the village known as Teliyā Budhari on the southern bank of the River Padma. Since Govinda Kavirāja, the author of two books, Saṅgīta-mādhava and Gītāmṛta, was a great Vaiṣṇava kavi, or poet, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī gave him the title Kavirāja. He is described in the Bhakti- ratnākara, Ninth Taraṅga.

Kaṁsāri Sena was formerly Ratnāvalī in Vraja, as described in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā, verses 194 and 200.