Murari Gupta (
fl.
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16th century) was born in a
Baidya family in
Sylhet
Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an ...
. He was a physician and noted
Bengali Vaishnava poet. He became a devotee of
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and moved to
Nabadwip.
In 1513, he composed in
Sanskrit the ''Shri Krishna Chaitanya Charanamrita'' ( ''murāri-gupta-kaṛchā''), a poetic biography of
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This work is the earliest source for Chaitanya's life. Later
hagiographies are based on this work such as the ''
Chaitanya Charitamrita''.
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