Narottama dasa thakura biography of mahatma

Leading acarya in the Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Narottama Dasa Thakura (13 February 1520; date of death unknown), also known as Thakura Mahasaya, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint who spread Vaishnavabhakti throughout Odisha, in Bengal, and elsewhere in India.^[1] Narottama Dasa was the son of King Krishnananda Datta and Narayani Devi, who resided in Gopalpur Pargana of the modern-day Rajshahi district of Bangladesh.

According to some scriptues, after the death of his father he entrusted his royal duties to the eldest son of his paternal uncle and left for Vrindavana.^{[citation needed]}

Biography

Narottama Dasa Thakura was a lifelong brahmachari.

He was born in a family of the Bengali Kulin Kayastha caste, the son of King Shri Krishnananda Datta, who ruled the area of Gopalpura in Rajashahi district of modern-day Bangladesh, his capital being Khetri on the Padma River.

Narottama's mother was Narayani Devi, and he was born on the purnima (full-moon