Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
This is the gufa, or cave where Shrila Raghava Pandita Goswami performed his bhajana. He was a greatly learned scholar and thus addressed as pandita, but he chose to live the life of a recluse at this deserted spot next to Govardhana Hill. The cave in which he lived is called Mani-kundali Gufa and when visiting this place while on parikrama with Shrinivasa Acharya and Narottama Dasa Thakura, Raghava Pandita told his two companions that this was the cave where Radha and Krishna used to sit and enjoy amorous pastimes together. The cave goes underground for some distance but it has shrunk in size over the years. The word ‘gufa’ means ‘cave’ and there used to be many such caves scattered all over Govardhana Hill, where Krishna would enjoy His transcendental pastimes with Radharani and the gopis. Some say that Mani-kundali Gufa was another cave further up on Govardhana Hill that has since disappeared. Raghava Pandita was a companion of Raghunatha Dasa Goswami and was an expert on the holy places of Vraja Mandala. At the suggestion of Shrila Jiva Goswami, he guided Shrinivasa Acharya and Narottama Dasa on their historic parikrama of Vraja Mandala that follows the same route taken by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. According to the Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika, Raghava Pandita was one of the ashta-sakhi gopis known as Champakalata in Krishna’s Vrindavana pastimes.
