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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
bhāgavatī devānanda —Devānanda, who used to recite  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ;  vakreśvara-kṛpāte —by the mercy of Vakreśvara;  bhāgavatera —of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ;  bhakti-artha —the  bhakti  interpretation;  pāila —got;  prabhu haite —from the Lord.
TRANSLATION
Devānanda Paṇḍita was a professional reciter of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , but by the mercy of Vakreśvara Paṇḍita and the grace of the Lord he understood the devotional interpretation of the Bhāgavatam.
PURPORT
In the  Caitanya-bhāgavata ,  Madhya-līlā , Chapter Twenty-one, it is stated that Devānanda Paṇḍita was an inhabitant of the same village in which the father of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Viśārada, lived. He was a professional reciter of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , but Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not like his interpretation of it. In the present town of Navadvīpa, which was formerly known as Kuliyā, Lord Caitanya showed such mercy to him that he gave up the Māyāvādī interpretation of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and learned how to explain  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  in terms of  bhakti . Formerly, when Devānanda was expounding the Māyāvādī interpretation, Śrīvāsa Thākura was once present in his meeting, and when he began to cry, Devānanda's students drove him away. Some days later, Caitanya Mahāprabhu passed that way, and when He met Devānanda He chastised him severely because of his Māyāvāda interpretation of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . At that time Devānanda had little faith in Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as an incarnation of Lord Kṛṣṇa, but one night some time later Vakreśvara Paṇḍita was a guest in his house, and when he explained the science of Kṛṣṇa, Devānanda was convinced about the identity of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Thus he was induced to explain  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  according to the Vaiṣṇava understanding. In the  Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā  it is described that he was formerly Bhāguri Muni, who was the  sabhā-paṇḍita  who recited Vedic literatures in the house of Nanda Mahārāja.
TEXTS 78-79
খণ্ডবাসী মুকুন্দদাস, শ্রীরঘুমন্দন ।
নরহরিদাস, চিরঞ্জীব, সুলোচন ॥ ৭৮ ॥
এই সব মহাশাখা – চৈতন্য-কৃপাধাম ।
প্রেম-ফল-ফুল করে যাহাঁ তাহাঁ দান ॥ ৭৯ ॥
khaṇḍavāsī mukunda-dāsa, śrī-raghunandana narahari-dāsa, cirañjīva, sulocana