Kṛṣṇa Miśra was a son of Advaita Ācārya. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu always sat in his heart.

karttikeyah krsna-misrah tat-samyaditi kecana [“Aside from this, some devotees say that Sri Krsna Misra was also the incarnation of Karttikeya. ”]

TEXT 28

Advaita Ā cā rya’s very confidential servant named Kamalā kā nta Viś vā sa knew all the dealings of Advaita Ā cā rya.

Purp.: The name Kamalā nanda mentioned in the Ā di-lī lā (10. 149) and the name Kamalā kā nta mentioned in the Madhya-lī lā (10. 94) both refer to the same man.

  Anubh.: adi, 10m p. 149 sonkhyae likhito ‘kamalananda’ o madhya 10m p. 94 sonkhyae likhito ‘kamalakanta’ sombhobotoh eki byakti = …are both probably one person.

TEXT 40

mukti——ś reṣ ṭ ha kari’ kainu vā ś iṣ ṭ ha vyā khyā na

kruddha hañ ā prabhu more kaila apamā na

“Thus I expounded the Yoga-vā ś iṣ ṭ ha, which considers liberation the ultimate goal of life. For this the Lord became angry at Me and treated Me with apparent disrespect.

Purp.: There is a book of the name Yoga-vā ś iṣ ṭ ha that Mā yā vā dī s greatly favor because it is full of impersonal misunderstandings regarding the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with no touch of Vaiṣ ṇ avism. Factually, all Vaiṣ ṇ avas should avoid such a book, but Advaita Ā cā rya Prabhu, wanting punishment from the Lord, began to support the impersonal statements of the Yoga-vā ś iṣ ṭ ha. Thus Lord Caitanya Mahā prabhu became extremely angry at Him and seemingly treated Him disrespectfully.

A. -pr. -bh.: yoga-vasistha byakhyan korite korite kono chole odvoito probhu bhokti opeksa muktike srestho boliyachilen. = In a fictitious way, Advaita Prabhu claimed, while explaining Yoga-vā ś iṣ ṭ ha, that mukti is better than bhakti.

TEXT 58

Bhā gavata Ā cā rya, Viṣ ṇ udā sa Ā cā rya, Cakrapā ṇ i Ā cā rya and Ananta Ā cā rya were the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth branches of Advaita Ā cā rya.

TEXT 59

Nandinī, Kā madeva, Caitanya dā sa, Durlabha Viś vā sa and Vanamā lī dā sa were the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth branches of Ś rī Advaita Ā cā rya.

Anubh.: Gaura-gaṇ oddeś a-dī pikā (89):

nandini jangali jneya jaya ca vijaya kramat [“The devotees Nandini and Jangali who were associates of Lord Caitanya had previously been Jaya and Vijaya in Lord Krsna's pastimes. ”]

sitar gorbho-jato odvoito-konya = Nandini was a daughter of Advaita Prabhu, born from the womb of Sita. (with a question mark)

TEXT 81

The fifth branch was Ananta Ā cā rya; the sixth, Kavi Datta; the seventh, Nayana Miś ra; the eighth, Gaṅ gā mantrī; the ninth, Mā mu Ṭ hā kura; and the tenth, Kaṇ ṭ hā bharaṇ a.

Purp.: …Mā mu Ṭ hā kura, whose real name was Jagannā tha Cakravartī, was the nephew of Ś rī Nī lā mbara Cakravartī, Ś rī Caitanya Mahā prabhu’s grandfather. In Bengal a maternal uncle is called mā mā, and in East Bengal and Orissa, mā mu. Thus Jagannā tha Cakravartī was known as Mā mā or Mā mu Ṭ hā kura…

Anubh.: mamu thakur – sri mohaprobhu ihake ‘mama’ boliya dakiten; tajjonyo loke ihake ‘mama-thakur’ boliten. = Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to adress him Mama, therefore people called him Mama Thakura…

 Purp.: …After the demise of Ś rī Gadā dhara Paṇ ḍ ita, Mā mu Ṭ hā kura became the priest in charge of the temple known as Ṭ oṭ ā -gopī nā tha, in Jagannā tha Purī. ... The followers (? ) of Mā mu Ṭ hā kura were Raghunā tha Gosvā mī, Rā macandra, Rā dhā vallabha, Kṛ ṣ ṇ ajī vana, Ś yā masundara, Ś ā ntā maṇ i, Harinā tha, Navī nacandra, Matilā la, Dayā mayī and Kuñ javihā rī.

Anubh.: …tota gopinather sevok-goner guru-pronali – (1) sri gadadhar pondit gosvami (srimati radhika, motantore saubhagya-manjari), (2) tod-onugo sri jagannath cakravarti ‘mamu’ gosvami, (sri-rupa-manjari? ), (3) tod-onugo raghunath gosvami, (4) ramacandra… = The succession of the priests serving Tota Gopinatha Deity was as follows: (1) Sri Gadadhara Pandita Gosvami (Srimati Radhika, or, in others’ opinion, Saubhagya-manjari) (! ), (2) his successor Mamu Gosvami (Sri Rupa-manjari – with a question mark), (3) his successor …

TEXT 84

The fifteenth branch was Ś rī nā tha Cakravartī; the sixteenth, Uddhava; the seventeenth, Jitā mitra; and the eighteenth, Jagannā tha dā sa.

Purp.:. .. Jitā mitra wrote a book entitled Kṛ ṣ ṇ a-mā yurya. … (? )

Anubh.: Ś ā khā -nirṇ ayā mṛ ta (36):

yasya sri-pustakam krsna-ma dh urya(! )-prema-posakam

jitamitram aham vande sarva bhista-pradayakam

 Purp.: …Jagannā tha dā sa... As one of the sixty-four sakhī s, he was formerly an assistant of Citrā devī -gopī named Tilakinī.

Anubh.: jagannath das – ini sri-rupa-pada-krto ‘krsna-ganoddesa’-likhito somo-somaj-stho cotuh-sosthi sakhi-goner 26 sonkhyok sakhi ‘tilakini’ – citra devir uposakhi. = In Krsna-ganoddesa, written by Srila Rupa Gosvami, he is described as the 26^th among the 64 sakhis, named Tilakini – an assistant of Citradevi. Sloka 142:

rasalika tilakini sauraseni sugandhika

…He is mentioned in Suryadasa Sarkhela’s Bhoga-nirnaya-poddhoti:

tatah sucitra yuthas ca ye mahanto bhavanti tan

jagannathakhya dasas ca thakkuro jagad-isakah

TEXT 85

The nineteenth branch was Ś rī Hari Ā cā rya; the twentieth, Sā dipuriyā Gopā la; the twenty-first, Kṛ ṣ ṇ adā sa Brahmacā rī; and the twenty-second, Puṣ pagopā la.

Anubh.: Ś ā khā -nirṇ ayā mṛ ta (38):

vande gopala-dasakhyam sadipura-nivasinam

radha-krsna-prema-rasaih plavitam vikramam puram

 This indicates that Sadipuriya Gopala means Gopala, the resident of Sadipura. (! )

TEXT 87

The twenty-eighth branch was Amogha Paṇ ḍ ita; the twenty-ninth, Hastigopā la; the thirtieth, Caitanya-vallabha; the thirty-first, Yadu Gā ṅ guli; and the thirty-second, Maṅ gala Vaiṣ ṇ ava.

Anubh.: Hastigopala was Harini in Vraja (G. -g-d. 196 & 206). … In the village Paligrama-canaka, in the district of Burdwan, still resides a scion of the family of Yadu Ganguli’s branch, Sri Nalinaksa Thakura.

Purp.: Ś rī Maṅ gala Vaiṣ ṇ ava was a resident of the village Ṭ iṭ akaṇ ā in the district of Murshidabad. His forefathers were ś ā ktas who worshiped the goddess Kirī ṭ eś varī. It is said that Maṅ gala Vaiṣ ṇ ava, formerly a staunch brahmacā rī, left home and later married the daughter of his disciple Prā ṇ anā tha Adhikā rī in the village of Mayanā ḍ ā la… (? )