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From the book’s preface :
“The material for the biographies of the companions of Sri Chaitanya is scanty. No independent biographies of any sort exist on them, except for Nityananda-charita, the biography of Nityananda Prabhu, written by Vrindavana Das and Advaita Prakash of Isana Nagara, of which the authenticity is regarded as doubtful.
But the companions of Sri Chaitanya are completely surrendered to Sri Chaitanya. They know nothing except him, and do nothing except what pleases him. They are his arms, through which he works to fulfil his aims and purposes.
Their biographies to a great extent are virtually part and parcel of the biography of Sri Chaitanya. The sources from which material for their biographies can be drawn are to a large extent the same as the sources from which the material for the biography of Sri Chaitanya is drawn. They are, principally, Chaitanya-bhagavata, by Vrindavana Das, Chaitanya-charitamrita, by Krishnadas Kaviraj, Sri Krishna-chaitanya-charitamrita or the Kadacha by Murari Gupta and Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita-mahakavya by Kavikarnapura. These have, therefore, been adopted as the main sources for the biographies included in this book.
On account of dearth of any other material these biographies have to be short, some of them so short that it would be ridiculous to call them biographies. They are at best notes. But they are important in as much as they reveal some important traits in the character of some devotees or some episodes in the life of Sri Chaitanya, which relates to them.”
From the book’s preface :
“The material for the biographies of the companions of Sri Chaitanya is scanty. No independent biographies of any sort exist on them, except for Nityananda-charita, the biography of Nityananda Prabhu, written by Vrindavana Das and Advaita Prakash of Isana Nagara, of which the authenticity is regarded as doubtful.
But the companions of Sri Chaitanya are completely surrendered to Sri Chaitanya. They know nothing except him, and do nothing except what pleases him. They are his arms, through which he works to fulfil his aims and purposes.
Their biographies to a great extent are virtually part and parcel of the biography of Sri Chaitanya. The sources from which material for their biographies can be drawn are to a large extent the same as the sources from which the material for the biography of Sri Chaitanya is drawn. They are, principally, Chaitanya-bhagavata, by Vrindavana Das, Chaitanya-charitamrita, by Krishnadas Kaviraj, Sri Krishna-chaitanya-charitamrita or the Kadacha by Murari Gupta and Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita-mahakavya by Kavikarnapura. These have, therefore, been adopted as the main sources for the biographies included in this book.
On account of dearth of any other material these biographies have to be short, some of them so short that it would be ridiculous to call them biographies. They are at best notes. But they are important in as much as they reveal some important traits in the character of some devotees or some episodes in the life of Sri Chaitanya, which relates to them.”