the religion which he developed, rather than actually founded.

Bisambhar (Vishvambhara) Misr was the youngest son of Jagannath Misr, a
Brahman, native of the district of Sylhet in Eastern Bengal, who had
emigrated before the birth of his son to Nadiya (Nabadwipa), the
capital of Bengal. [Footnote: The facts which here follow are taken
from the "Chaitanyacharitamrita," a metrical life of Chaitanya, the
greater part of which was probably written by a contemporary of the
teacher himself. The style has unfortunately been much modernized, but
even so, the book is one of the oldest extant works in Bengali. My
esteemed friend Babu Jagadishnath Ray has kindly gone through the book,
a task for which I had not leisure, and marked some of the salient
points for me.] His mother was Sachi Debi, daughter of Nilambar
Chakravarti. She bore to Jagannath eight daughters who all died young;
her first-born child, however, was a son named Biswarup, who afterwards
under the name of Nityanand became the chief disciple of his more
famous brother. Bisambhar was born at Nadiya in the evening of the
_Purnima_ or day of the full moon of Phalgun 1407 Sakabda,
corresponding to the latter part of February or beginning of March A.D.
1486. It is noted that there was an eclipse of the moon on that day.
By the aid of these indications those who care to do so can find out
the exact day. [Footnote: There was an eclipse of the moon before
midnight Feb. 18, O.S. 1486.] The passages in the original are:--


Sri K.rish.na the Visible became incarnate in Nabadwip,
For forty-eight years visibly he sported;
The exact (date) of his birth (is) Saka 1407,
In 1455 he returned to heaven.