(mid-16th century)
Author of one version of the Chaitanya-Charitramrta ("Nectar of
Chaitanya's Deeds"), a Bengali saint Chaitanya's life story.
The text of Kavikarnapura was composed in 1542, nine years
after Chaitanya's death, and at a time when efforts to make Chaitanya a saint
had already started.
Kavikarnapura clearly recognizes his debt to Murari Gupta's
previous biography of Chaitanya.
He departs from the older text by depicting Chaitanya as a
Krishna incarnation who has come to bestow grace on ordinary people.
The author does not claim that this is a "objective" biography, but rather a hagiography produced by a devout follower, as with other conventional narratives of Chaitanya's life (bhakta).
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