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Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami
From the book “Sri Vraja-maṇḍala-parikramā”:
Near a kadamba tree in the south-western part of Śrī Rādhā-kuṇḍa is an ancient temple of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. According to hearsay, the mendicant Śrī Dāsa Gosvāmī found these deities of Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa while he was renovating the kuṇḍa and gave Them to the Vrajavāsīs to worship and serve.
Nearby, in the north-western part of Śrī Kṛṣṇa-kuṇḍa is the temple of Śrī Śyāmasundara, the worshipful deity of Śrī Śyāmananda Prabhu. North of this temple is Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī’s worshipful deity Śrī Rādhā-Dāmodara, and north of that temple is Śrīnivāsa Ācārya Prabhu’s place of bhajana. There is a deity of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu here. East of Śrī Śyāmasundara’s temple, in the northern part of Śrī Rādhā-kuṇḍa, is the ghāṭa and sitting-place of Śrī Jāhnavā Ṭhākurānī. Near her ghāṭa is the temple of Śrī Gopīnātha. Adjacent to that temple is Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī’s place of residence and his puṣpa-samādhi. Proceeding from here, one comes to the temple of Śrī Govindadeva. Near this temple is the śilā of Śrī Girirāja’s tongue. On the eastern bank of Rādhā-kuṇḍa is the bhajana-kuṭī of Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, and near this to the east, on the bank of Śyāma-kuṇḍa, is the bhajana-kuṭī of Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī.