Research on Radha Madhava Deities

[Guest guest]

We are doing some research on Deities of Radha Madhava and a couple of

questions have arisen that I wonder if anyone could help with:

 

1) At the yogapitha temple in Mayapur (Mahaprabhu's appearance place) a sign

identifies the Radha Krishna Deities there as being Radha-Madhava. In the

biographies we have of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta there is no mention of him

installing Deities by that name in Mayapur. Were these Deities installed by

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta or someone else? Did they have another name

previously?

 

2) It is commonly accepted that one of the sets of Radha Krishna Deities on

the altar of the Radha Damodara temple in Vrindavan are the Radha Madhava of

Jayadeva Goswami. Is there any pramana that these Deities are actually the

Radha Madhava that belonged to Jayadeva?

 

Thank you.

 

Das anudas, Madhavananda Das

[Guest guest]

This is tougher.

 

 

 

> We are doing some research on Deities of Radha Madhava and a couple of

> questions have arisen that I wonder if anyone could help with:

>

> 1) At the yogapitha temple in Mayapur (Mahaprabhu's appearance place) a

sign

> identifies the Radha Krishna Deities there as being Radha-Madhava. In the

> biographies we have of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta there is no mention of him

> installing Deities by that name in Mayapur. Were these Deities installed

by

> Srila Bhaktisiddhanta or someone else? Did they have another name

> previously?

 

I haven't heard this before. It would not surprise me, but I think you are

best off communicating with the Yogapith or Chaitanya Math to find out.

 

> 2) It is commonly accepted that one of the sets of Radha Krishna Deities

on

> the altar of the Radha Damodara temple in Vrindavan are the Radha Madhava

of

> Jayadeva Goswami. Is there any pramana that these Deities are actually the

> Radha Madhava that belonged to Jayadeva?

 

There are many deities claiming this identity. I would be very doubtful. I

believe that there is a Nimbarki ashram in Vrindavan that makes this same

claim and theirs is probably the older one.