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Foreword

Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī and the subsequent ācāryas
who have glorified him.

Śrīla Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī’s poetic adoration of Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Śrī Rādhā, Śrī Vṛndāvana-dhāma,
and Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma, in his famous works Śrī Rādhā-
rasa-sudhā-nidhi, Śrī Caitanya-candrāmṛta, Vṛndāvana-
śataka, and Navadvīpa-śataka, is unprecedented in its
unique ebullience. Among his other works are Saṅgīta-
Mādhava, Āścarya-rasa-prabandha, Śruti-stuti-vyākhyā, Gīta-
govinda-vyākhyāna, Kāma-bīja-kāma-gāyatrī-vyākhyāna,
and a commentary on Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad. The
present book is actually a trilogy of Śrīla Prabodhānanda
Sarasvatī’s writings which were so far unknown to the
public. In the longest of the three works, Viveka-śatakam,
the author repeatedly expresses his ardent desire to go to
Vṛndāvana. In Caitanya-citrāṣṭakam and Nityānandāṣṭakam
he delightfully employs selected words of unalloyed
ardour for his worshipable Lords. Typical of Śrīla
Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, his devotional ecstasy as if
leaps from his heart into his words and therefrom to the
heart of the sympathetic reader.

By traveling the length and breadth of India, often
accepting very austere conditions in the course of
undertaking perseverant, meticulous research, and by
locating, translating, and publishing the manuscripts
featured herein, Bhakta Demian has been able to perform
this notable service of adding to the known canon of
Śrīla Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī. All Gauḍīyas should be