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the sect as principal Ansas, or portions of himself, animating the form of ADWAITÁNAND, whilst NITYANAND was a personal manifestation of the same divinity, as he had appeared formerly in the shape of BALARÁMA: the female incarnation was not assumed on this occasion, being, in fact, comprised in the male, for RÁDHÁ, as the Púrna-Sakti, or comprehensive energy, and KRISHNA, as the Púrna-Saktimán, or possessor of that energy, were both united in the nature of the Nadiya saint.
The father of CHAITANYA died in his son's childhood, and his elder brother, VIŠVARÚPA, had previously assumed the character of an ascetic: to take care of his mother, therefore, CHAITANYA refrained from following his inclinations, and continued in the order of the Grihastha, or householder, till the age of twenty-four, during which time he is said to have married the daughter of VALLABHÁCHÁRYA. At twenty-four', he shook off the obligations of society, and becoming a Vairági, spent the next six years in a course of peregrinations between Mathurá and Jagannath, teaching his doctrines, acquiring followers, and extending the worship of KRISHNA. At the end of this period, having nominated ADWAITÁCHÁRYA and NITYANAND to preside over the Vaishnavas of Bengal, and RÚPA and SANÁTANA Over those of Mathurá, CHAITANYA settled at Nilachal, or Cuttack, where he remained twelve
1 Not forty, as stated by Mr. WARD (2, 173): his whole life little exceeded that age, as he disappeared at forty-two.
