Dutt, Romesh Chunder: The literature of Bengal: being an attempt to trace the progress of the national mind in its various aspects, as reflected in the nation’s literature from the earliest times to the present day ; with copious extracts from the best writers (Calcutta, 1877)

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her lord with all the devotion ,of a Hindu wife, and
expired soon after Chaitanya had left Nadiya.

Chaitanya now continued giving instruction to his
pupils at Nadiya; He was now called Nimai Pandit or
Viswambhar Pandit. He assembled his pupils early in
the morning and gave instruction till about noon, after
which he and* his pupils went to the river-side together
to bathe. Then, they parted, and met again in the even-
ing, and continued their literary labors till a late hour
in the night. • *

.The mother of Chaitanya became anxious to marry
his son again, and the young Pandit was married to
Vishnu Priya, the accomplished daughter of jSanotana,
whose learning had got for him the title of Pandiiaraj,
or the prince of the learned. A pupil of Chaitanya, by
same Buddhimanta, volunteered, the expenses of his
tutor's marriage, and the ceremony was performed with
great pomp. Soon after Chaitanya again left his native
place and visited Gaya. ,

The visit to Gaya was the great turning-point in the
■life of the reformer. An enthusiastic young man, and
■attached to the faith of Krishna from his early youth,
- Chaitanya had, up to this time, lived and learned and
taught much in the same way as other men did. But
the sanctity of the place he visited, his meeting there
with Iswari Puri a devout Vaishnava, and a hundred
local religious associations of the place, caused a thorough
change in the character of the ardent young man. He
had gone to Gaya a noted scholar and a religious man,