Gaudiya Vaishnava Acharyas

Lord Sri Krishna

Svayam Bhagavan — the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Source of All Avataras

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

The Golden Avatar Who Inaugurated the Sankirtana Movement

18 February 1486 (Phalguna Purnima), during a lunar eclipse – 14 June 1534, at the age of 48

Srila Haridasa Thakura

Namacharya, the Teacher of the Holy Name

c. 1451 (disputed) – Ananta Chaturdashi day (exact year uncertain)

Srila Jagannatha Dasa Babaji

Vaishnava Sarvabhauma — Emperor Among the Vaishnavas

c. 1800 – date not precisely recorded; Vaishnava tradition holds he lived to an extraordinary age

Srila Madhvacharya

Founder of Dvaita Vedanta

Traditionally 1238 CE (some sources: 1199 CE; Srila Prabhupada's purport to Chaitanya-charitamrita gives 1118 CE, noting 1238 CE as an alternate reckoning) – Traditionally 1317 CE (some sources: 1278 CE), age about eighty

Srila Raghunatha Dasa Goswami

Foremost in Renunciation Among the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana

c. 1494 (sources vary) – Traditionally 1586, Shukla Dvadasi of Ashvina (some sources place it a few years earlier)

Srila Rupa Gosvami

Foremost of the Six Gosvamis of Vrindavana, Architect of the Science of Devotional Rasa

c. 1489 (sources vary) – Traditionally 1564, Shravana Shukla Dvadashi

Srila Vrindavana Dasa Thakura

Author of Sri Chaitanya-Bhagavata

c. 1507 CE (Krishna Dvadashi, month of Vaishakh, 1429 Shaka era) – c. 1589 CE (exact year disputed)

Lord Brahma

Adi-Guru — First Spiritual Master and Secondary Creator of the Universe

At the start of the present cosmic creation (kalpa) — not a date on any human calendar – None yet, by tradition's own account — Brahma is understood to still be living; a single day of his life equals 4.32 billion human years

Padmanabha Tirtha

First Pontiff After Madhvacharya

Not clearly recorded. Sources agree only on his purva-ashrama (pre-sannyasa) name, Shobhana Bhatta; his exact birth year does not appear in any source consulted for this page – 1324 CE, after heading the community for about seven years. Traditional Sakabda-era Mutt tables place his succession a century earlier, around 1199-1200 CE; this page follows B. N. K. Sharma's epigraphically-supported redating (see Chronology and a Real…

Sri Kholavecha Shridhara

The Khola-Seller of Navadwip

Date not recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's householder years in Navadwip, early 16th century) – Date not recorded in the sources consulted

Sri Nityananda Prabhu

Patita-pavana, the Deliverer of the Fallen

c. 1474, Magha Sukla Trayodashi – c. 1540

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

The Seventh Goswami

2 September 1838 – 23 June 1914, at the age of 75

Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami

Author of Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita

c. 1496-1528 (sources disagree) – c. 1615-1620 (some traditions say 1616-1617)

Srila Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami

The Goswami Whose Voice Made Srimad-Bhagavatam Sing

c. 1503-1505 (sources vary) – c. 1579 (some sources say 1580)

Srila Sanatana Gosvami

Eldest of the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana and the Ideal Spiritual Master

c. 1488, Bengal – Traditionally 1558

Narada Muni

Celestial Sage and Travelling Teacher of Bhakti, Guru of Vyasadeva and Dhruva Maharaja

Timeless — reckoned among the mind-born sons of Lord Brahma at the dawn of the present universe – None recorded — a liberated soul who has not undergone death since his present birth, and whom Vaishnava tradition holds to be still travelling today

Sri Advaita Acharya

The Devotee Whose Prayers Called the Lord Down

1434, Magha Sukla Saptami – after 1534

Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami

Compiler of the Hari-bhakti-vilasa and Discoverer of Sri Radha Raman

c. 1503 (traditionally the 13th day of the dark half of Pausha) – Traditionally 1578 (6th day of the dark half of Sravana), at about 75 years of age

Sri Narahari Tirtha

The Minister-Regent Who Became the Second Pontiff

B. N. K. Sharma's academic history calculates his birth at about 1241 CE, from his own inscriptions. Srila Prabhupada's purport to Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9.245, instead places his entry in the succession list at Shaka 1127 (about 1205 CE) -- a… – Traditionally 1333 CE (the cyclic year Srimukha), after nine years as the second pontiff of the matha Madhvacharya founded, and roughly three decades of earlier public life as a minister and regent in Kalinga

Srila Gaura Kishora Dasa Babaji

The Renounced Mendicant of Vrindavana and Nabadwip

17 November 1838 – 17 November 1915, on his 77th birthday

Srila Gauridasa Pandit

Householder Devotee Who Installed the Gaura-Nitai Deities of Ambika Kalna

Not recorded (late 15th century); first lived at Saligrama, Bengal – Shukla Ekadashi, Shravana (year not recorded)

Srila Shrinivasa Acharya

The Acharya Who Carried the Goswamis' Scriptures to Bengal

Full-moon day of Vaishakha; year disputed, roughly 1517-1530 – Not recorded by tradition

Sri Gadadhara Pandit

The Lord's Own Pleasure Potency

c. 1486 – c. 1534, shortly after Mahaprabhu

Sri Madhava Tirtha

Third Pontiff of the Uttaradi Matha

Birth name Vishnu Shastri; pontiff 1333-1350 CE (seventeen years), per B. N. K. Sharma's academic history. Srila Prabhupada's purport to Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9.245, instead places him at Shaka 1136 (about 1214 CE) in its own list of the… – 1350 CE, after seventeen years as pontiff; his tradition's aradhana (disappearance anniversary) is kept on Mahalaya Amavasya

Sri Vamsi Dasa Babaji Maharaj

The Paramahamsa Avadhuta of Navadvipa

1859 (one source only; not independently cross-checked) – Shukla Chaturthi, Shravana, 1944 (one source dates this precisely to July 23, 1944)

Srila Jiva Goswami

Systematic Philosopher of the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana

Traditionally c. 1513 (sources disagree; some place it as early as 1511 and others as late as the 1530s) – Traditionally 1608 (some sources say 1598; the exact year is disputed)

Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura

Poet-Saint Who United Gaudiya Vaishnavism at Kheturi

Month of Magha (year disputed) – Karttika, Krishna Panchami (year not established)

Srila Ramananda Raya

The Governor Who Became Mahaprabhu's Confidant

Exact year not recorded (a mature man of about forty, roughly twice Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's age, when they met around 1510-1512) – Exact date not recorded — sources vary between Jyestha Krishna-panchami and Vaishakha Krishna-panchami

Srila Vyasadeva

Compiler of the Vedas, Author of Srimad-Bhagavatam

Traditionally at the junction of Dvapara-yuga and Kali-yuga (exact site and era disputed) – Not dated; tradition holds he remains present in the world

Sri Akshobhya Tirtha

Guru of Jayatirtha, Fourth Pontiff of the Madhva Peetha

No independent birth year is recorded; born Govinda Shastri (also Govinda Bhatta) in Uttara-Karnataka. Working backward from his 1350-1365 CE tenure as pontiff, modern scholarship (Wikipedia, following B. N. K. Sharma's chronology) places his birth… – Traditionally 1365 CE, at the close of a fifteen-year tenure (1350-1365 CE per B. N. K. Sharma's academic chronology) as the fourth pontiff after Madhvacharya

Sri Srivasa Thakura

In Whose Courtyard the Sankirtana Movement Began

c. 1450 – after 1534

Srila Abhirama Gopala Thakura

Nityananda Prabhu's Preacher-Associate at Khanakula Krishnanagara

Not recorded (flourished late 15th - early 16th century) – Krishna Saptami (dark seventh) of the month of Chaitra; year not recorded

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Founder of the Gaudiya Math

6 February 1874, 3:30 pm – 1 January 1937, at the age of 62

Srila Shyamananda Pandit

The Milkman's Son Who Carried the Goswamis Home

Chaitra Purnima; traditionally dated 1535 AD by one detailed household-lineage account, though most sources give no year – Krishna-pratipada (first lunar day of the dark fortnight), month of Ashadha; year given as 1623 AD by one detailed source, and as Shaka 1552 / 1630 AD elsewhere on this site — sources disagree

Sri Jayatirtha

Tikacharya, the Commentator of Dvaita Vedanta

Traditionally about 1345 CE; pontiff 1365-1388 CE (23 years). Srila Prabhupada's purport to Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9.245, instead places him at Shaka 1167 (about 1245 CE) -- a real, unresolved discrepancy discussed on this page – Traditionally 1388 CE, at the close of a 23-year tenure as the sixth pontiff after Madhvacharya

Srila Prabhupada

Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

1 September 1896 – 14 November 1977, at the age of 81

Srila Rasikananda Prabhu

The Preacher Who Crossed Every Caste Line in Odisha

Kartika, night of Dipamalika (Diwali), Sakabda 1512 (c. 1590 AD) – First day of the bright fortnight of Phalguna, Sakabda 1574 (1652 AD)

Srila Svarupa Damodara Goswami

Mahaprabhu's Confidential Secretary at Jagannatha Puri

Not recorded – On a Ratha-yatra day in the month of Ashadha; year not recorded

Sri Jnanasindhu

A Name Between Jayatirtha and Dayanidhi

Not recorded in any source found for this project – Not recorded in any source found for this project

Srila Chandrashekhara Acharya

The Physician of Varanasi Who Sheltered Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Not recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, active in Varanasi in the early 16th century) – Not recorded

Srila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura

Author of the Sarartha-darsini and Architect of Raganuga-Bhakti

c. 1626 (sources vary widely, 1610s-1660s) – c. 1708, Vasanta-panchami (Magha)

Sri Dayanidhi

The Disputed Middle Name Before Vidyanidhi

Not recorded in any source found for this project – Not recorded in any source found for this project

Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana

Author of the Govinda-bhashya

c. early 18th century (exact year unknown) – traditionally 1768; some scholars place it as late as 1793 (disputed)

Srila Lokanatha Gosvami

The Renunciant Guardian of Radha-Vinoda

Year not recorded; left home for Nabadwipa c. 1509-1510 CE – Ashtami of Shravana or of Asharh (sources disagree); one tradition dates it to Shaka 1510 / 1588-89 CE

Sri Vidyanidhi

Guru of Rajendra Tirtha in the Gaudiya List

Not independently recorded under the name Vidyanidhi; if identified with Vidyadhiraja Tirtha, born Krishna Bhatt around 1269 CE (Shaka 1190) per Dvaita-tradition sources – Not recorded under the name Vidyanidhi; if identified with Vidyadhiraja Tirtha, his headship of the Udupi matha is dated to about 1388-1392 CE

Srila Lochana Dasa Thakura

Author of Sri Chaitanya-mangala and Poet of the Srikhanda Vaishnavas

1523 (a minority of sources give 1520) – Year not recorded in the sources consulted for this page

Srila Vasudeva Ghosh

Poet-Singer of the Three Ghosh Brothers

Year not recorded; a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (born 1486) – Date not recorded with certainty; traditionally observed on a tithi in the Bengali month of Kartika

Sri Rajendra Tirtha

Founder of the Matha Line That Became Vyasaraja Matha

Traditionally around 1332 CE (Shaka 1254), per the South Kanada Manual/Bombay Gazette succession list quoted in Srila Prabhupada's own purport to Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya 9.245; not independently verified elsewhere – Not precisely dated; B. N. K. Sharma's History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta places his headship of his own matha around 1388-1412 CE

Srila Govinda Ghosh

Kirtan Leader Among the Ghosh Brothers, Founder of Sri Gopinatha at Agradwipa

Not recorded; a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (late 15th century) – Not recorded

Srila Hridaya Chaitanya

The Guru Who Discovered Shyamananda Pandit

Not recorded (flourished in the generation after Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, mid-16th century) – Not recorded (before 1630 AD, during Shyamananda Pandit's later years preaching in Utkal)

Srila Madhava Ghosh

The Singer of Vrindavana

Date not recorded (era of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, early 16th century) – Not recorded

Srila Prabodhananda Saraswati

Author of Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi, Uncle and Guru of Gopala Bhatta Goswami

Not recorded; a generation senior to his nephew Gopala Bhatta Goswami (born c. 1503) – Not recorded in available sources

Srila Vijayadhvaja Tirtha

Author of the Padaratnavali, a Major Dvaita Commentary on Srimad-Bhagavatam

Not recorded; independent Dvaita-tradition sources place his active life in the late fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century – Traditionally observed on Akshaya Tritiya (the third day of the bright half of Vaishakha); commonly dated 1410, though some sources place his death as late as 1448

Sri Purushottama Tirtha

The Pontiff Who Vanished Into a Cave at Abburu

Not recorded; the Vyasaraja Matha's own succession record gives his pre-sannyasa name as Srinivasacharya but no birth year or place – Tradition holds he did not die but withdrew into cave tapasya, remaining alive in a hidden sense; the Vyasaraja Matha's own published succession list gives his pontifical tenure as 1400-1416, a date that sits awkwardly against other sources for the…

Srila Kavi Karnapura Goswami

The Poet Whose Verses Chaitanya-Charitamrita Itself Quotes

Traditionally dated 1524 or 1527 (sources disagree) – Not recorded; his last securely dated work is from 1576

Srila Mukunda Datta

Class friend and favorite singer of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Not recorded – Jyeshtha purnima, the day of Snana Yatra (year not recorded)

Sri Brahmanya Tirtha

Guardian and Guru of Vyasa Tirtha

Not independently recorded; his monastic tenure is dated to the mid-15th century CE – 1467 CE per most matha-tradition lists; academic scholarship on Vyasa Tirtha's life instead places it in the famine of 1475-1476 CE — sources disagree

Srila Jahnava Mata

Consort of Nityananda Prabhu Who Led Gaudiya Vaishnavism After 1534

Early 16th century (exact year unrecorded in primary sources; one secondary source gives 1509) – Shukla Navami, month of Vaishakha (year not established in the sources checked for this page)

Srila Murari Gupta

Physician-Devotee and Author of the Earliest Life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Not recorded (an older contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, b. 1486) – Year not recorded; tradition places the day on Sharad Purnima, the autumn rasa-lila full-moon

Srila Ramachandra Kaviraja

Poet-Disciple of Shrinivasa Acharya and Closest Friend of Narottama Dasa Thakura

Not recorded by year; flourished in the generation after Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own associates, as a disciple of Shrinivasa Acharya (later 16th century) – Not recorded by year; sources differ on the exact date (the dark-fortnight tritiya of Pausha per one account, Krishna-trayodashi of Magha per another)

Sri Vyasa Tirtha

Royal Preceptor of the Vijayanagara Empire

Traditionally 1447 CE, per Wikipedia's summary of academic sources; other sources place his birth closer to 1460 – 8 March 1539, at roughly ninety years of age

Srila Gangamata Goswamini

Renunciate Founder of the Ganga-mata Math, Jagannatha Puri

c. 1601 (Shukla-dashami, Jyestha), per the Ganga-mata Math's own record – c. 1721, per the Ganga-mata Math's own record; no detailed disappearance narrative survives

Srila Tapana Mishra

The Brahmana of Kashi Who Fed Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Daily

Not recorded (an adult householder and older contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, active from the early 16th century) – Not recorded (before his son Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami's final departure for Vrindavana)

Sri Lakshmipati Tirtha

The Acharya Named Lakshmipati

Not recorded in any source consulted for this project; a widely repeated but unsourced online estimate of 1420 appears to trace back to a single Wikipedia stub – No date recorded in any source consulted for this project. A Gaudiya devotional account (gaudiyahistory.iskcondesiretree.com) describes him leaving his body suddenly and without illness, not long after a final vision of Nityananda Prabhu, but assigns no…

Srila Pundarika Vidyanidhi

The wealthy Vaishnava Mahaprabhu called father

Vasanta-panchami, exact year unrecorded – Year unrecorded

Srila Viracandra Prabhu

Son of Nityananda Prabhu and Founding Figure of the Nityananda-vamsa

Ninth day of the dark fortnight of Kartika, per one tradition; Agrahayana shukla chaturdashi (the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Agrahayana), per the Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana - sources disagree, and no year is reliably established – Not recorded in any source checked for this page

Srila Bilvamangala Thakura

Poet-Saint Who Composed Sri Krishna-karnamrita

Uncertain — estimates range from the 9th to the 14th century (disputed) – Not recorded in any source found for this project

Srila Devakinandana Dasa Thakur

Poet of the Vaishnava-vandana

Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page – Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page

Srila Shivananda Sena

The householder who led Bengal's devotees to Jagannatha Puri every year

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Jagadananda Pandita

The Life and Soul of the Lord

Exact date not recorded — an associate of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu from the earliest Navadvipa sankirtana years – Exact date not recorded in any source consulted for this page

Srila Jayadeva Goswami

Author of the Gita Govinda

12th century CE (disputed) – 12th–13th century CE (accounts differ)

Srila Raghunandana Thakura

The Child Who Fed Sri Gopinatha

c. 1510 AD (Shaka 1432), Srikhanda – Shukla Chaturthi, month of Shravana (year not recorded in sources consulted)

Kaliya Krishna Dasa

A Cowherd-Boy Associate of Nityananda Prabhu, Remembered for a Story of Falling and Being Reclaimed

Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page – Month of Chaitra (spring); exact day given differently across sources

Srila Madhavendra Puri

Root of the Gaudiya Bhakti Creeper

Not precisely recorded by tradition; Wikipedia estimates circa 1420 – Not precisely dated in Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita itself; Wikipedia estimates circa 1490

Srila Narayana Bhatta Goswami

Rediscoverer of Vraja's Twelve Forests, Author of Vraja-bhakti-vilasa

c. 1531 (sources vary) – Not reliably documented

Kali Das

The Devotee Who Lived on the Remnants of the Vaishnavas

Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page – Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page

Sri Gadadhara Dasa Goswami

Companion of Mahaprabhu, Chief Preacher Under Nityananda Prabhu

Not recorded – Kartika-shukla-ashtami (year not recorded)

Srila Ishvara Puri

Diksha-Guru of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Full moon day of the month of Jyestha (exact year not recorded) – Exact date not recorded — he passed away between Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's initiation at Gaya (c. 1509-1510) and the Lord's arrival at Jagannatha Puri after taking sannyasa

Srila Ganga Dasa Pandit

Boyhood Teacher of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Year not recorded; Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita places his birth a generation before Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own appearance in 1486 – Not recorded

Srila Sridhara Swami

Author of the Bhavartha-dipika, the Bhagavatam's First Great Commentator

Not recorded; modern scholarship places his life roughly between 1350 and 1450 CE, most likely around 1400 CE – Not recorded

Srimati Sita Thakurani

The Wife Whom Mahaprabhu Called Mother

Not recorded – Not recorded in the sources consulted; tradition describes her living to an old age and taking on leadership after Advaita Acharya's own disappearance

Sri Ganga Narayana Chakravarti

Foremost Disciple of Narottama Dasa Thakura

Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page – Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page

Sri Subuddhi Raya

The Landholder Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Told to Simply Chant

Exact year not recorded — already an elderly, established landholder in Bengal when the events of his story took place, decades before his meeting with Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Varanasi – Not recorded in any source consulted for this page

Srila Govinda Dasa Kaviraja

Bengali Padavali Poet, Author of Bhajahu Re Mana

c. 1535 (traditional dating found in secondary sources; not stated in Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita itself) – c. 1613 (traditional dating; not corroborated by any primary source found for this page)

Srila Purushottama Dasa Thakura

Bengali Devotee Wholly Absorbed in Nityananda Prabhu

Not recorded (probably early-to-mid 16th century) – Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page

Srila Jagannatha Tirtha

A Sannyasi Named Among Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Own Associates

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Narahari Chakravarti Thakura

Author of the Bhakti-ratnakara and Narottama-vilasa

Late 1600s (exact year not established) – Not established

Hemalata Thakurani

Daughter of Srinivasa Acharya Who Became a Guru in Her Own Right

Not recorded (mid-to-late 16th century, by inference from her father's and her disciple's dates) – Not recorded

Sri Madhu Pandit Goswami

Priest of Sri Gopinatha at Vamshivata

Not precisely recorded by tradition – Not precisely dated; belonged to the generation of Rupa Goswami and Sanatana Goswami's companions in 16th-century Vrindavana

Srila Ramachandra Puri

The Godbrother Whose Criticism Chaitanya-charitamrita Turns Into a Warning

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Gopala Guru Goswami

The Boy Mahaprabhu Named Guru, Later Keeper of Sri Radha-Kanta at Puri

Not recorded; grew up as a small boy in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own company at Puri, so born in the early sixteenth century – Ninth day of a fortnight of the month of Kartika, year not recorded (sources differ on whether it was the dark or bright fortnight)

Srila Raghava Pandit

Keeper of the Yearly Bhandara Carried to Jagannatha Puri

Not recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) – Not recorded

Srila Jagadisha Pandit

The Fifteenth Branch of Sri Nityananda Prabhu's Family Tree

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srimati Vishnupriya Devi

The Wife Who Waited a Lifetime in Separation

16th century; exact year not recorded in the sources consulted – Devotional and temple tradition holds she lived to about 96, roughly 80 years after Mahaprabhu's sannyasa; no source consulted gives a specific year, and Chaitanya-charitamrita and Chaitanya-Bhagavata do not record this figure themselves

Sri Vakresvara Pandita

The Ecstatic Dancer Mahaprabhu Called His Own Wing

Traditionally the fifth day of the dark fortnight of Ashadha (June-July); no year is recorded. Village of Guptipara, near Triveni, Bengal – Traditionally the sixth day of the bright fortnight of Ashadha (June-July); no year is recorded

Srimati Sachi Devi

Mother of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Year not recorded – Year not recorded in the surviving sources

Srimati Madhavi Devi

The Half of Mahaprabhu's "Three and a Half" Confidential Devotees

Not recorded – Not recorded

Ramadasa Vipra

Brahmana Devotee of Lord Ramachandra Met at Southern Mathura

Not recorded – Not recorded

Ramadasa Brahmana

The Siddhavata Brahmana Whose Chanting Turned From Rama to Krishna

Not recorded – Not recorded

Ramadasa Vishvasa

The Kayastha Companion of Raghunatha Bhatta Goswami

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Shrinatha Pandita

Guru of Kavi-karnapura Goswami

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Venkata Bhatta

Sri Vaishnava Host of Mahaprabhu at Srirangam, Father of Gopala Bhatta Goswami

Not recorded (a generation senior to his son Gopala Bhatta Goswami, born c. 1503) – Not recorded

Srila Vasudeva Datta Thakura

Mahaprabhu's Most Confidential Servant

Year not recorded – Year not recorded

Srila Uddharana Datta Thakura

The Gold Merchant Who Cooked for Nityananda Prabhu

c. 1481 – Krishna Trayodashi, month of Pausha, Shaka 1463 (commonly rendered c. 1541; one widely mirrored account gives 1552)

Srila Paramananda Puri

Godbrother and Constant Companion of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri

Not recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, flourished c. late 15th - early 16th century) – Not recorded

Srila Pradyumna Mishra

The Brahmana Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Sent to Learn Krishna-Katha from Ramananda Raya

Not recorded (sources differ on his home region) – Not recorded

Maharaja Prataparudra

The Gajapati King Who Swept the Road for the Lord

Not recorded; ascended the Gajapati throne in 1497 – 1540 CE

Srila Narayana Pandita

An Associate of Shrivasa Thakura

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Anupama Mallika

Youngest of the Three Gosvami Brothers, Father of Srila Jiva Goswami

Not recorded (youngest of Kumaradeva's three Vaishnava sons) – Sakabda 1436 (A.D. 1514), soon after returning to Bengal from Vrindavana

Sri Devananda Pandit

Bhagavatam reciter of Kuliya, forgiven at the place where offenses are forgiven

Not recorded – Krishna Ekadashi (the eleventh day of the waning moon) of the month of Pausha, year not recorded

Srila Dhananjaya Pandit

Renounced Servant of Nityananda Prabhu at Sitalagrama

Not reliably recorded (one secondary source gives a date of 1485, era unspecified, which could not be verified or reconciled with Mahaprabhu's own lifetime) – Shukla-ashtami (the bright eighth) of the month of Kartik; year not recorded

Sri Damodara Pandit

The Devotee Whose Rebuke Mahaprabhu Called Pure Love

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Govinda Datta

Principal Singer in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Own Kirtana Party

Not recorded (village of appearance is known; no year survives) – Not recorded

Srila Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya

The Royal Pandit Converted by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

c. 15th century (exact year unrecorded; sources disagree) – Not recorded

Srila Narahari Sarkar Thakura

Leader of the Srikhanda Vaishnavas and Guru of Lochana Dasa Thakura

c. 1479-80 AD (Shaka 1401/1402), some years before Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own appearance – Krishna Ekadashi of Agrahayana month; the exact year is disputed, with sources ranging from c. 1540 to 1582

Sri Yadunandana Acharya

Priest and Diksha-Guru of Raghunatha Dasa Goswami

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sundarananda Thakura

Nityananda Prabhu's Most Intimate Servant Among the Twelve Gopalas

Not recorded in the sources consulted for this page – Full-moon day of Magha, per Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's Anubhasya; full-moon day of Kartika, per a separate account (sources differ; year not recorded either way)

Srila Vamsivadana Thakura

Krishna's Flute Who Cared for Vishnupriya and Sachi Devi

c. 1494-1495 (per the Vamsi-shiksha; some accounts give 1506 - sources differ) – Not recorded in any source consulted for this page

Srila Bhugarbha Goswami

Lokanatha Gosvami's Lifelong Companion in Vrindavana

Not recorded – Chaturdashi (14th day) of the Kartika full-moon fortnight; year not recorded

Kashishvara Pandit

The Guardian Who Cleared Mahaprabhu's Path

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Mahesh Pandit

One of the Twelve Gopalas, Beloved Companion of Nityananda Prabhu

Not recorded (birthplace itself disputed) – Krishna-trayodashi (13th day of the dark fortnight), month of Pausha; year not recorded

Srila Minaketana Rama Dasa

The Ecstatic Servant of Sri Nityananda Prabhu

Not recorded – Not recorded

Murari Mahiti

The Puri Devotee Sarvabhauma Introduced as "Nothing Other Than Your Lotus Feet"

Not recorded – Not recorded

Parameshvara Dasa Thakura

The Fifth of Nityananda Prabhu's Twelve Gopalas

Not recorded – Not recorded (disappearance festival observed on the full-moon day of Vaishakha, April-May)

Parameshvara Modaka

The Confectioner Who Fed the Boy Chaitanya

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Madhusudana Vachaspati

Brother of Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya, Host of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at Vidyanagara

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Nandana Acharya

The Navadvipa host in whose house the Lord and His brother hid

Not recorded – Not recorded

Pradyumna Brahmachari

The Branch Renamed Nrisimhananda for His Devotion to Lord Nrisimhadeva

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Purandara Acharya

Whom Mahaprabhu Called Father

Not recorded in the sources consulted – Not recorded in the sources consulted

Srila Raghupati Upadhyaya

Whose Verses Melted Mahaprabhu's Composure

Not recorded in the sources consulted – Not recorded in the sources consulted

Sri Ranga Puri

Sannyasi Godbrother of Isvara Puri, Met at Pandarpur

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Sadashiva Pandit

The Twelfth Branch of the Chaitanya Tree, First Host of Nityananda Prabhu in Navadwip

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Sadashiva Kaviraja

Vaidya Physician-Poet Among Nityananda Prabhu's Listed Associates

Not recorded – Not recorded

The Sanoriya Vipra

The Mathura Brahmana Who Guided Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Unknown – Unknown

Santosha Datta

Raja of Kheturi Who Hosted the Kheturi Mahotsava

Not recorded – Not recorded

Satyaraja Khan

The Kulina-grama householder entrusted with Jagannatha's Ratha-yatra ropes

Not recorded – Not recorded

Ser Khan

Pathan official won over by Shyamananda Pandit's kirtan

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Shankara Pandita

The Devotee Whose Body Became the Lord's Own Pillow

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Vishvarupa (Shankararanya)

Elder Brother of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Renounced as Shankararanya

Year not recorded (elder brother of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, b. 1486) – 1431 or 1432 Shakabda (A.D. 1509 or 1510; sources differ by one year)

Sri Sharanga Thakura

The Bhajananandi of Mamgachi

Not recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, flourished early 16th century) – Thirteenth day, dark fortnight of Agrahayana (Mrigashira); year not recorded

Shikhi Mahiti

The Likhanadhikari Counted Among Mahaprabhu's Three Confidential Devotees

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Shrikanta Sena

Shivananda Sena's Nephew, Identified as the Gopi Katyayani

Not recorded – Not recorded

Shriman Pandita

Torch-Bearer Among Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's Personal Servants

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Shubhananda Dvija

The Singer Who Drank Mahaprabhu's Foam

Not recorded – Not recorded

Shuklambara Brahmachari

The Poor Brahmachari Whose Rice the Lord Could Not Resist

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Sulochana

The Forty-Second Branch of the Chaitanya Tree

Not individually recorded (a contemporary of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) – Not recorded in any source found for this project

Srila Uddhava Dasa

A Branch of Gadadhara Pandit Named in the Chaitanya-charitamrita

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Kamalakara Pippalai

One of Nityananda Prabhu's Twelve Gopalas, Founder of Deity Worship at Mahesha

c. 1492 (Gaudiya Vaishnava Abhidhana; not stated in Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita itself) – Chaitra Shukla Trayodashi, 1563 (family tradition; not independently confirmed)

Srila Ishan Thakur

The Servant the Child Nimai Called Father

Not recorded (already in the household when Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born, c. 1486) – Not recorded; said to have lived to a very great age, outliving Vishnupriya Devi and most other Nabadwip-era devotees

Bhagavan Acharya

The Householder-Scholar Who Cooked for Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Date not recorded; appeared in Sri Dham Nabadwip, later of Halisahar – Date not recorded

Bhagavan Pandita

The Dear Servant Named in a Single Verse

Not recorded – Not recorded

Basudeva Vipra

The Leper Brahmana Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Turned Back to Embrace

Unknown – Unknown

Bijali Khan

The Young Pathan Prince Who Received the Lord's Foot Upon His Head

Not recorded – Not recorded

Buddhimanta Khan

The Navadwip Householder Who Funded the Lord's Wedding

Not recorded – Not recorded

Gopinatha Pattanayaka

The Treasurer Saved From the Executioner's Swords

Not recorded – Not recorded

Sri Kurma Vipra

The Brahmana Mahaprabhu Told to Become a Guru

Date not recorded (a householder brahmana of Kurma-kshetra, met by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu during His South India tour, c. 1510) – Not recorded in the sources consulted

Vanamali Acharya

The Astrologer Who Arranged Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's First Marriage

Not recorded – Not recorded

Vanamali Vipra

The Poor Brahmana Who Saw Vraja Appear in Navadvipa

Not recorded – Not recorded

Srila Yadavacharya Goswami

Rupa Goswami's Companion Named in Chaitanya-charitamrita

Not recorded – Not recorded