IM. 9492 (fr.).

or zeSa kRSNa of the celebrated Śeṣa family of Benaras; grandson of Śeṣa Rāmacandra, son
of Śeṣa Nṛsiṁha (a. of Govindārṇava, dh.), elder brother of Śeṣa Cintāmaṇi (a. of
Rasamañjarī- [Page365-a] vyākhyā); father of Śeṣa Vīreśvara (guru of Jagannātha
Paṇḍitarāja) and Śeṣa Nārāyaṇa (a. of Mahābhāṣyavyākhyā-Sūktiratnākara).

Latter half of the 16th Cent. A. D.

Was patronised by:

1. Narottama of Tāṇḍavapura near Benares, the youngest brother of Govindacandra who prompted
Kṛṣṇa's father Nṛsiṁha to compile the Govindārṇava. Narottama prompted Śeṣa Kṛṣṇa to
write the Pārijātaharaṇacampū and the Padacandrikā.

2. Govardhanadhārin or Giridhārin, son of Akbar's minister, Toḍara Malla; prompted Śeṣa
Kṛṣṇa to write the drama Kaṁsavadha.

3. Pilājī, son of Keśavadāsa who showed his prowess in the South and is styled
‘Paramavaiṣṇava’ prompted Śeṣa Kṛṣṇa to write the Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi. The BORI. ms. 50
of 1872-73 of this work is dated 4th March 1591.

4. Vīravara of Patrapuñja, in the territory between the Ganges and the Jumna, prompted Śeṣa
Kṛṣṇa to write the Prakriyākaumudīprakāśa for the education of his son Kalyāṇa.

Śeṣa Kṛṣṇa's contemporaries in Benares: Bhāvā Gaṇeśa Dīkṣita (of the Cittapāvanas);
Gopī Bhaṭṭa (of the Gūrjaras); Vidyānivāsa Bhaṭṭācārya (father of Viśvanāthapañcānana)
(of the Gauḍas); Raghupati Upādhyāya (of the Tairabhuktas). Śeṣa Kṛṣṇa was the chief of the
Mahārāṣṭra Paṇḍits.

See also Ind. Ant. 41. pp. 248-251.

--‘Upapadamatin’-sūtravyākhyāna. Weber 760 (p. 216). [Page365-b]

--Kaṁsavadha. nāṭaka. Ptd. K. M. 6.

--[Govindārṇava. dh. composed at the instance of Govindacandra by Śeṣa Narasiṁha, Śeṣa
Kṛṣṇa's father; but in his Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi, Ś. Kṛ. mentions it as his own work: atra
aparo vizeSo govindArNave'smatkRte draSTavyaH |].

See Ind. Ant. 41. p. 248.

--(Dharmānubandhi)Ślokacaturdaśī. dh.

Ptd. with C. by Śeṣa Rāma, Princess of Wales Sar. Bha. Texts 22.

--Padacandrikā. an elementary metrical treatise on Sārasvata gr. IO. 903.

--C. Kṛṣṇakautūhala on above. Mentioned by a.'s son Śeṣa Nārāyaṇa in the beg. of
latter's C. Sūktiratnākara on Mahābhāṣya:
aSTavyAkaraNAvagAhanakRtazrIkRSNakautUhala-
granthaH zrIpadacandrikAvivaraNaM varvartti yaccAdhunA ||

See Ind. Ant. 41, p. 253.

--Pārijātaharaṇa campū. Ptd. K. M. 14.

--C. Gūḍhabhāvavivṛti or Prakāśa on Prakriyākaumudī. BORI. D. II. i. 109-118. Cs. VIII.
39. MD. 16717. MT. 1563. Mu7nchen J. 353.

--Prākṛtacandrikā. Pkt. gr. in verses; on the model of his own Padacandrikā. BORI. 255 of
1884-86. IO. 945. PUL. II. p. 85.

--Yaṅlugantaśiromaṇi. IO. 704. L. 1772.

Same as part of a.'s C. Prakāśa on the Yaṅlugº section of the Prakriyākaumudī.

--Śabdābharaṇa or Śabdālaṅkāra. gr. an extensive work of which his C. on Pra. kaumudī is
an abridgement, as he himself says in verse 45 of the [Page366-a] Intro. verses in the above C.
--vahnau suvarNamiva yatparizodhya zabdAlaGkAranAmani mayA nihitaM prabandhe |

See BORI. D. II. i. 109.

Also mentioned by his son Śeṣa Nārāyaṇa in his C. Sūktiratnākara on Mahābhāṣya: yaH
zabdAbharaNaM nibandhamakarot.

--Śūdrācāraśiromaṇi.

Ptd. Princess of Wales Sar. Bha. Texts 44.

--Sphoṭatattva. L. 1431.

stotra. composed at Kālaṭi. by Saccidānandaśivābhinavanṛsiṁhabhāratī. (Beg.
magavatpadakarapaGkajaº).

Ptd. Bhaktisudhātaraṅgiṇī pp. 411-12. V. V. Press, 1913.

vallabhīya. composed in 1769 (Saṁvat or Śaka).

--by Gokula, styled Guṇasāgara of the Māgadhavaṁśa, pupil of Viṭṭhaleśa. Jodhpur 1365.
RASB. VII. 5747.

Adyar II. p. 198a. BISM. Nasik Patawardhan 795. MD. 6101. 6102-4. 6105. 6106-7 (differ in Ṛṣi
and chandas). 15123 (same as 6102). 17872 (dvai.). PUL. II. App. p. 55. TD. XX. Sup. nos. 239. 275
(dvai.). 276 (inc.). 466. 614.

Devīpr. 79. 40.

Adyar II. p. 198a. Adyar IV. 1467.

Adyar I. p. 189b. Same as Kṛṣṇabhāvaśataka of Veṅkaṭārya III on p. 341b above.

one of the 108 Pāñcarātra Saṁhitās. A ms. of this is noted in a private collection at
Nagapattanam. See Adyar Library Bulletin VI. p. 200. [Page366-b]

Q. by Ānandatīrtha in his Bhagavadgītātātparyanirṇaya, IO. 3277.

Nārada-Bahulāśva-saṁvāda. Alwar 775. Extr. 165.

compiled by Kedarnath Datta; on the worship of Kṛṣṇa; with Bengali transl.

Ptd. Calcutta, 1879. See Br. Mus. Ptd. Bks. 1876-92. 183 and IO. Ptd. Bks. 1938, p. 1384.

dh. by Śīlasanātana (?). CPB. 1019.

from Bhāgavatapurāṇa. CPB. 5991.

an. but likely to be same as Jīva Gosvāmin's Bharatpur II. 32. 34.

--by Jīva Gosvāmin. 4th of his six Sandarbhas.

CPB. 1020-1021. IO. 3528. K. 22. L. 1658. Radh. 39. SK. Ray 56 (A).

Ptd. Navadvipa, 1925-6. On its contents see S. K. De, History of Vaiṣ. Faith and Movement
(1961) pp. 314-54.

by Śivalālapāṭhaka. BORI. 647 of 1892-95.

--Haribhaktikalpalatikā in 14 Stabakas on Bhakti. IO. 2508. L. 2972.

teacher of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī (a. of Kṛṣṇakutūhalanāṭaka), mentioned in the prologue
of the play. See ABORI. XIII. 1931. pp. 2-3.

The prologue mentions the following plays on Kṛṣṇalīlās as the works of his preceptor
Kṛṣṇa Sarasvatī.

--Kāmakutūhala.

--Gopracāraṇa.

--Tāraṇīvihāra.

--Dānavinodana. [Page367-a]