Ādi-līlā, Chapter 11
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years old he went to Vṛndāvana with Jāhnavā-mātā, and upon seeing the ecstatic symptoms of Kānu Thākura, the Gosvāmīs gave him the name Kānāi Thākura.
In the family of Kānu Thākura there is a Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Deity known as Prāṇavallabha. It is said that his family worshiped this Deity long before the appearance of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When there was a Mahārāṣṭrian invasion of Bengal, the family of Kānu Thākura was scattered, and after the invasion one Harikṛṣṇa Gosvāmī of that family came back to their original home, Bodhakhānā, and re-established the Prāṇavallabha Deity. The descendants of the family still engage in the service of Prāṇavallabha. Kānu Thākura was present during the Kheṭari-utsava when Jāhnavā-devī and Vīrabhadra Gosvāmī were also present. One of Kānu Thākura's family members, Mādhavācārya, married the daughter of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, who was named Gaṅgādevī. Both Puruṣottama Thākura and Kānu Thākura had many disciples from  brāhmaṇa  families. Most of the disciplic descendants of Kānu Thākura now reside in the village named Gaḍabetā by the River Śilāvatī in the Midnapore district.
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महात्तागवत-श्रेष्ठ पञ्च विहारन ।
सर्वत्ताये सेवे नित्यानन्दे चरण ॥ 85 ॥
mahā-bhāgavata-śreṣṭha datta uddhāraṇa sarva-bhāve seve nityānandera caraṇa
SYNONYMS
mahā-bhāgavata —great devotee;  śreṣṭha —chief;  datta —the surname Datta;  uddhāraṇa —of the name Uddhāraṇa;  sarva-bhāve —in all respects;  seve —worships;  nityānandera —of Lord Nityānanda;  caraṇa —lotus feet.
TRANSLATION
Uddhāraṇa Datta Thākura, the eleventh among the twelve cowherd boys, was an exalted devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu. He worshiped the lotus feet of Lord Nityānanda in all respects.
PURPORT
The  Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā , verse 129, states that Uddhāraṇa Datta Thākura was formerly the cowherd boy of Vṛndāvana named Subāhu. Uddhāraṇa Datta Thākura, previously known as Śrī Uddhāraṇa Datta, was a resident of Saptagrāma, which is situated on the bank of the Sarasvatī River near the Triśabighā railway station in the district of Hugalī. At the time of Uddhāraṇa Thākura, Saptagrāma was a very big town, encompassing many other places such as Vāsudeva-pura, Bāṅśabeḍiyā, Kṛṣṇapura, Nityānanda-pura, Śivapura, Śaṅkhanagara and Saptagrāma.
Calcutta was developed under British rule by the influential mercantile community and especially by the  suvarṇa-vaṇik  community who came down from Sapta-