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Gokulananda

Gokulananda

Mahanta Sri Sri Gokulananda Deva Goswami Prabhupada

He was born in 1720 AD and became the ninth Mahanta of the Sri Sri Shyamanandi Gaddi after the disappearance of his father, Sri Sri Vaishnavananda Deva Goswami Prabhupada. In 1786, the Maharastrian ruler of Odisha, Pandita Rajaram, issued a document allowing him to travel to Puri and have darshan of Lord Sri Jagannatha without having to pay any tax. His wife, Srimati Chandana Devi Mata Goswamini, was a disciple of Sri Sri Vaishnavananda Deva Goswami Prabhupada. Up to the present day, four poems composed by Sri Sri Gokulananda Deva Goswami Prabhupada have been located. He had only one son, Sri Sri Trivikramananda Deva, and entered the eternal pastimes on the seventh lunar day of the bright fortnight of the Bhadra month of 1791 AD. Somewhere it is stated that he had a brother named Sri Sri Kishorananda Deva too.