The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (481 page)

a Caitanya. He rapidly became renowned for his ecstatic devotion, expressed in dance and song, and was believed to be an
avat
ra
of the joint figure of K
a and
R
dh
. His ecstatic, even wild, forms of devotion were later thought (by his disciple, R
pa Gosv
m
) to be a participation in the divine
l
l
, or play, the source of creativity itself. The so-called ‘Six Gosv
m
s’ were disciples who gave some order and structure to the inspiration which Caitanya left, and which continue to the present, not least in the Hare Krishna (see