Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
In this temple can be seen the ‘pratibhu-murti’ of Lord Gopinatha. The original Deity of Lord Gopinatha was established by King Vajranabha almost five thousand years earlier in Vrindavana, but like the other important Deities that he established, Lord Gopinatha was in due course of time lost. The Deity was again rediscovered at Vamsi Vata by Paramananda Goswami and the seva-puja was reestablished by Paramananda’s close friend Madhu Pandita Goswami, an important associate of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. When the Deities of the Gaudiya Goswami’s were moved from Vrindavana due to the fear of an attack by the soldiers of Aurangzeb in 1669, the Deity of Lord Gopinatha was brought to Kamyavana via Radha-kunda along with Govindaji, Madana-mohana and Vrinda Devi. Lord Gopinatha is presently being worshiped in Jaipur. The exquisitely beautiful and all-attractive Lord Gopinatha, who is also referred to as being the transcendental Cupid or Kamadeva, is considered to be the presiding Deity of Kamyavana forest.
