Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami was born in 1496 in a Nadiya family of physicians at the village of Jhamatpur, within the district of Barddhaman, near Naihati. His father was Sri Bhagiratha, and his mother was Sri Sunanda. He had a younger brother named Syama Dasa. The deity of Gaura-Nityananda installed by Sri Kaviraja Goswami is still being worshiped there. It appears that his family line is no more.

Krsnadasa Kaviraj was a renunciate who took shelter of the Goswamis — Sri Rupa, Sri Sanatana, Sri Jiva, Sri Raghunatha, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta and Sri Gopala Bhatta — as his instructing spiritual masters. From Sri Lokanatha Goswami and Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami he begged permission to write Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, a definitive biography of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Lokanatha directed Sri Kaviraja that he desired to be unmentioned in his book; that is why, in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, hardly a reference about Lokanatha Goswami is to be found.

Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami compiled the following books: Sri Govinda-lilamrta, Krsna-karnamrta commentary (Saranga-rangada kangada tika) and of course, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.

It is not known in which year when he passed away.

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