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scriptures, has now become Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī
and is engaged in singing the glories of Lord Gaurāṅga.”

In the beginning of the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (1.2) it is stated:
bhakter vilāsāṁś cinute prabodhānandasya śiṣyo bhagavat-priyasya
gopāla-bhaṭṭo raghunātha-dāsaṁ santoṣayan rūpa-sanātanau ca

“Gopāla Bhaṭṭa, disciple of Śrīla Prabodhānanda, a dear
associate of Lord Caitanya, is compiling this Hari-bhakti-
vilāsa to please Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana
Gosvāmī and Śrīla Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī.”

In his Bhakti-ratnākara (1.149-150,152,153), Narahari
Cakravartī says:

keha kahe prabodhānandera guṇa ati
sarvatra haila yāṁra khyāti sarasvatī
pūrṇa-brahma śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya bhagavān
tāṁra priya, tāṁra vinā svapane nāhi āna

parama-vairāgya-sneha mūrti manorama
mahā-kavi, gīta-vādya-nṛtya anupama
yāṁhāra vākya śuni’ sukha bāḍaye sabāra
prabodhānandera mahā-mahimā apāra

“Some say that Prabodhānanda had many virtues. He
became famous everywhere as ‘Sarasvatī.’ Even in dreams
he did not know anyone else besides Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya,
the Supreme Brahman, Who was so dear to him. He was
fascinating, supremely detached, affection personified, a
great poet and incomparable in dance and music, both