Family and Elders (pg 18-22)
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Sree Ananta, Siva, Brahma, the Rishis and all the relations and associates of every divine Avatara were born and their prototypes. some of them appeared in Nabadwip, some in Chattagram, Srihatta, some were born in Rahr, in Odra, and the West. the devotees descending into this world from their transcendental realm appeared in various places, and, coming up subsequently to Nabadwip, were there joined together around the Person of the Lord. All the Vaishnavas were born in Nabadwip, except a few who appeared elsewhere.

The Elders who were first to appear were Sree Sachi, Sree Jagannath, Sree Madhabendra Puri, Sree Keshava Bharati, Sree Isvara Puri, Sree Advaita Acharya, Sree Pundarik Vidyanidhi, Sree Thakur Haridas, Sree Upendra Misra, father of Sree Jagannath Misra, with his seven sons, Sree Nilambar Chakravarti, father of Sree Sachi Devi, Sree Sree Prabhu Nityananda, Sree Gangadas Pandit, Sree Murari Gupta, Sree Mukunda and others.

Our records show that a certain Brahmana of Western India, bearing the name of Sree Madhukar Misra, a devotee of Sree Sree Narayana, for some unknown reason, came to Sylhet and settled there. Sree Upendra Misra was the second son of Sree Madhukar Misra. Sree Upendra Misra was a Vaishnava, a great scholar, wealthy and possessed of an abundance of good qualities. Sree Upendra Misra was the father of seven sons,—( 1 ) Kamsari, (2) Paramananda, (3) Jagannath, (4) Sarbeswar, (5) Padmanabh, (6) Janardan, and (7) Trilokanath. Sree Jagannath Misra, one of the seven sons of Sree Upendra Misra, migrated from Sylhet to Nabadwip, the emporium of all learning of the Age. The title of Sree Jagannath Misra, earned by his shastric scholarship, was Purandara.

At Nabadwip Sree Purandara Misra espoused Sree Sachi Devi, the eldest daughter of Sree Nilambar Chakravarti. With the intention of dwelling in the neighbourhood of the sacred stream of the Bhagirathi, that has issued from the Feet of Vishnu, in the company of high-born Sree Sachi Devi, who was the embodiment of devotion to Vishnu, pure-hearted magnanimous Purandara Misra settled in Sree Mayapur in the central 'Island' of the City of Nine Islands.


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Sree Chandrasekhar Acharya was the maternal uncle(mother's sister's husband) of Sree Chaitanya. Sree Murari Gupta, the author of Sree Chaitanya Charit, belonging to a Vaidya family of Sylhet, had migrated to Nabadwip. He was senior in years to Sree Chaitanya. Sree Pundarik Vidyanidhi, also known as 'Premanidhi, and 'Acharyanidhi,, had his paternal home in the village of Mekhala about fourteen miles to the north of the town of Chittagong, where his sacred 'seat' still exists. His partner's name was Ratnavati. His father was Vaneswar (or Suklambar) Bhatta and his mother's name was Ganga Devi. He was the disciple of Sree Madhabendra Puri and was himself accepted as his Guru by Sree Gadadhar Pandit Goswami. Sree Chaitanya called Pundarik Vidyanidhi 'father' and bestowed on him the name of 'Premanidhi' indicative of servitorship of Godhead. Sribas and his younger brother Sree Rama left their home at Sree Mayapur and removed to Kumarhatta after Sree Chaitanya's renunciation of the world.