Krishnananda Dutta, born as Krishnananda Dutta Chowdhury (c. 1490-1570) in a Dutta Chowdhury family in

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of the present-day

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, India, was the 4th ''

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'' revenue collector (zamindar) there. He regularly organised

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s at his ''kirtanana-mandapa'' located near by his home. Ancestral Deity of Bhaktivinoda

In ca.1514 CE Krishnananda was initiated to ''krsna-nama-mantra'' by

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in Andul. A few years later he took

sanyas ''Sannyasa'' (Sanskrit: संन्यास; IAST: ), sometimes spelled Sanyasa (सन्न्यास) or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as '' A ...

and went to

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, carrying his deities— Radha-Madhava there. At the request of the king of Aul he then moved to Chhoti village in

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district in

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. He was an ancestor of Kedar Nath Dutta ( Srila Bhakti Vinoda Thakura) and Bimala Prasad Dutta ( Shrila Bhakti Shiddhanta Saraswati Thakura). The deities which Krishnananda carried to Puri from Andul are now known as the Ancestral deities of Bhakti Vinod Thakur'''.

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