Later Acharyas
The great acharyas who came after the Six Goswamis of Vrindavana and carried Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings forward through their writings, songs and institutions.
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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)
6 लीला पृष्ठ
Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami
Author of Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita
c. 1496-1528 (sources disagree) – c. 1615-1620 (some traditions say 1616-1617)
6 लीला पृष्ठ
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
7 लीला पृष्ठ
Srila Narottama Dasa Thakura
Poet-Saint Who United Gaudiya Vaishnavism at Kheturi
Month of Magha (year disputed) – Karttika, Krishna Panchami (year not established)
6 लीला पृष्ठ
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
6 लीला पृष्ठ
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)
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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)
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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)
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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
5 लीला पृष्ठ
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)
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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
5 लीला पृष्ठ
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
5 लीला पृष्ठ
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)
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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)
4 लीला पृष्ठ
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
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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
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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
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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)
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Srila Narayana Bhatta Goswami
Rediscoverer of Vraja's Twelve Forests, Author of Vraja-bhakti-vilasa
c. 1531 (sources vary) – Not reliably documented
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