[Footnote 609: See Beames, _J.A._ 1873, pp. 37 ff., and Grierson, _Maithili Christomathy_, pp. 34 ff., in extra No. to _Journ. As. Soc. Bengal_, Part I. for 1882 and Coomaraswamy's illustrated translation of Vidyâpati, 1915. It is said that a land grant proves he was a celebrated Pandit in 1400. The Bengali Vaishṇava poet Chaṇḍî Dâs was his contemporary.] [Footnote 610: See Grierson, Gleanings from the Bhaktamâlâ, _J.R.A.S._ 1909 and 1910.] [Footnote 611: _Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan_, 1889, p. 57.] [Footnote 612: Similarly Dinesh Chandra Sen (_Lang, and Lit. of Bengal_, p. 170) says that Krittivâsa's translation of the Râmâyaṇa "is the Bible of the people of the Gangetic Valley and it is for the most part the peasants who read it." Krittivâsa was born in 1346 and roughly contemporary with Râmânand. Thus the popular interest in Râma was roused in different provinces at the same time. He also wrote several other poems, among which may be mentioned the Gîtâvalî and Kavittâvalî, dedicated respectively to the infancy and the heroic deeds of Râma, and the Vinaya Pattrikâ or petition, a volume of hymns and prayers.] [Footnote 613: See Growse's _Translation_, vol. I. pp. 60, 62.] [Footnote 614: Ib. vol. III. p. 190, cf. vol. I. p. 88 and vol. III. pp. 66-67.] [Footnote 615: Ib. vol. II. p. 54.] [Footnote 616: Ib. vol. I. p. 77.] [Footnote 617: Growse, _l.c._ vol. II. p. 200, cf. p. 204. Mâyâ who sets the whole world dancing and whose actions no one can understand is herself set dancing with all her troupe, like an actress on the stage, by the play of the Lord's eyebrows. Cf. too, for the infinity of worlds, pp. 210, 211.] [Footnote 618: Growse aptly compares St. Paul, "I had not known evil but by the law."] [Footnote 619: Ib. vol. II. p. 223.] [Footnote 620: Ib. vol. II. p. 196.] [Footnote 621: The Vishnuite sect called Nimâvat is said to have been exterminated by Jains (Grierson in _E.R.E._ sub. V. Bhakti-mârga, p. 545). This may point to persecution during this period.] [Footnote 622: For Vallabhâcârya and his sect, see especially Growse, _Mathurâ, a district memoir_, 1874; _History of the sect of the Mahârâjas in western India_ (anonymous), 1865. Also Bhandarkar, _Vaishṇ. and Saivism_, pp. 76-82 and Farquhar, _Outlines of Relig. Lit. of India_, pp. 312-317.] [Footnote 623: The principal of them are the Siddhânta-Rahasya and the Bhâgavata-Tîka-Subodhini, a commentary on the Bhâgavata Purâṇa. This is a short poem of only seventeen lines printed in Growse's _Mathurâ_, p. 156. It professes to be a revelation from the deity to the effect that sin can be done away with by union with Brahma (Brahma-sambandha-karaṇât). Other authoritative works of the sect are the Śuddhâdvaita mârtaṇḍa, Sakalâcâryamatasangraha and Prameyaratnârṇava, all edited in the Chowkhamba Sanskrit series.] [Footnote 624: Cf. the use of the word poshaṇam in the Bhâgavata Purâṇa, II. X.]