Vasudeva Ghosa

Vasudeva Ghosa, with his brothers Govinda and Madhava, was one of three siblings from Kulai village on the Ajay river near Katwa who became celebrated kirtan singers and eternal associates of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu — the three brothers together led one of the seven kirtan parties present at the Ratha-yatra festival in Jagannatha Puri that Mahaprabhu Himself attended. Thirty songs are gathered under Vasudeva's own signature here, the largest single chapter in this whole anthology, moving through gaura-candrika description of Chaitanya's appearance at Navadvipa alongside several songs directly glorifying Nityananda Prabhu as the shelter of the fallen — reflecting the brothers' own especially close historical association with Nityananda.