caitanya's form

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i am reposting my earlir question on this with some additions :

 

did caitanya have thread and shika ? as a sannyasi of sankara line,

he should have given up his tuft and brahmin thread. also, he should

have accepted tridanda. but caitanya seems to have not done any of

these if we go by the current depictions in iskcon and gaudiya

tradition.

 

in caitanya bhagavatha, sarvabhauma chastises him for giving up his

shika and bramin thread. and says that a sannyasi tinks that he is

very knowledgeable holding his tridanda - indirectly referring to

caitanya's own tridanda.

 

one way iskcon can resolve it is by saying that we dont worship the

sannyasi form of the lord but the grahastha form, which is

acceptable. but is there any other explanation for not depicting the

sannyasa form of the lord ? is there any deity form of the lord that

depicts him as one without the shika and thread - with tridanda ?

what is the earliest extant deity form of the lord ?