Shuklambara Brahmachari was the incarnation of one of the yajna-patnis who gave food in charity to Krishna and His friends. Lord Chaitanya was accustomed to eating food He had begged from Shuklambara Brahmachari. Some say that Shuklambara Brahmachari was not one of the yajna-patnis, but one of their husbands, the yajnika-brahmanas.
In Vraja there were two singers named Madhukantha and Madhuvrata. They appeared in Chaitanya lila as Mukunda and Vasudeva Datta, who were singers in the society of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 140)
Sri Vasudeva Datta was born in the Chittagong district of modern Bangla Desh, in the village of Chanhara, which is under the jurisdiction of the police station named Patiya. This village is situated ten kosas, or about twenty miles, from the village of Mekhala where Pundarika Vidyanidhi made his home. Mahaprabhu’s associate Mukunda Datta was Vasudeva Datta’s brother.
Vaninatha Vipra or Dvija Vaninath was a resident of Canpahati, a village in the district of Burdwan near the town of Navadvipa, the police station of Purvasthali and the post office of Samudragada. The temple there was very much neglected, but it was renovated in the Bengali year 1328 [A.D. 1921] by Sri ParamanandaBrahmacari [one of Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disciples], who reorganized the seva-puja (worship in the temple) and placed the temple under the management of the Sri Caitanya Matha of Sri Mayapur. In the temple as it now exists, the Deity of Sri Gaura-Gadadhara is worshiped strictly according to the principles of the revealed scriptures. Canpahati is two miles away from both Samudragarh and the Navadvipa station of the eastern railway.
Vaninatha Raya, Nayaka or Pattanayaka was one of the five sons of Bhavananda Raya. Ramananda Raya was his eldest brother. Bhavananda Raya offered his son Vaninatha Raya at the feet of Lord Chaitanya and thereafter Vaninatha stayed constantly with the Lord. In Krishna lila he was one of the pandavas.
He was the son of Mahesvara (Narahari Visarada) and the brother of the famous Vasudeva Sarvabhauma. His origin name was Vishnudasa and he migrated from Navadvipa and built his Shripata at Kumarahatta. He wrote the commentary on Tattvacintamani.It’s mentioned in Bhakti Ratnakara (1.598-602): Vidyavachaspati was the religious guide of Sri Sanatana and from time to time he stayed at Ramkeli. Sri Sanatana studied many scriptures under him and his respect for Vidyavacaspati knew no bounds. He respectfully mentioned the name of his guru in his book Sri Dasama Tippani.
The seventy-second branch of Chaitanya tree was Dvija Haridasa. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, “There is some question about whether Dvija Haridasa was the author of Ashtottara-sata-nama. He had two sons, named Shri Dasa and Shri Gokulananda. Their village, Kanchana-gadiya, is situated within five miles of the Bajarasau station, the fifth station from Azimganj in the district of Murshidabad [in West Bengal].” (C.C. Adi 10.112)
Ramachandra’s guru, Vasishtha Muni, appeared in two expansions in Gaura-lila as Ganga Das Pandit and Sudarshana. (Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 53)Ganga Das was very dear to Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Anyone who remembers him will be freed from all material bondage.(Chaitanya Charitamrita 1.10.29)
As a young boy, Gopala came to the lotus feet of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Shri Vakreshvara Pandit trained and initiated him. Lord Chaitanya loved Golpala and often joked with him. Once Mahaprabhu humorously called the boy “guru.” The name stuck and he became known as Gopala Guru Goswami.
When Shri Ganga Narayana Chakravarti, a renowned brahmana, took initiation from Shri Narottama Dasa Thakura the smarta brahmanas became outraged. They complained to King Narasimha that the “audacious sudra,” Narottama Dasa, had brazenly initiated a brahmana into the fold of Gaudiya Vaishnavism. The king, the smartas, and the dig vijaya pandit (world class scholar) went to challenge and conquer the “upstart” Narottama Dasa.
Sri Chandrashekhara was one of the main branches of Sri Chaitanya’s sankirtana movement. From the beginning of Sri Chaitanya’s Navadwipa lila he and his innumerable disciples faithfully served the Lord. In Sridhama Mayapur, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura established the headquarters of Sri Chaitanya Matha at the site of Chandrasekhara Acharya’s original home. His samadhi is behind the Madana Mohana Temple and next to Sanatana Gosvami’s samadhi. He is Subhadra or Candra-deva (moon god) in Krishna’s divine pastimes.