Ādi 12.87

Sri Maṅgala Vaisnava was a resident of the village Titakana in the district of Mursidabada. His forefathers were Saktas who worshiped the goddess Kiritesvari. It is said that Maṅgala Vaisnava, formerly a staunch brahmacari, left home and later married the daughter of his disciple Prananatha Adhikari in the village of Mayanadala. The descendants of this family are known as the Thakuras of Kaṅdada, which is a village in the district of Burdwan near Katwa. Scattered descendants of Maṅgala Vaisnava, thirty-six families altogether, still live there. Among the celebrated disciples of Maṅgala Thakura are Prananatha Adhikari, Purusottama Cakravarti of the village of Kaṅdada, and Nrsimha-prasada Mitra, whose family members are well-known mrdaṅga players. Sudhakrsna Mitra and Nikunjavihari Mitra are both especially famous mrdaṅga players. In the family of Purusottama Cakravarti there are famous persons like Kunjavihari Cakravarti and Radhavallabha Cakravarti, who now live in the district of Birbhum. They professionally recite songs from Caitanya-maṅgala. It is said that when Maṅgala Thakura was constructing a road from Bengal to Jagannatha Puri, he found a Deity of Radhavallabha while digging a lake. At that time he was living in the locality of Kaṅdada in the village named Ranipura. The salagrama-sila personally worshiped by Maṅgala Thakura still exists in the village of Kaṅdada. A temple has been constructed there for the worship of Vrndavana-candra. Maṅgala Thakura had three sons-Radhikaprasada, Gopiramana and Syamakisora. The descendants of these three sons are still living.