Brahma Samhita

It is revered within Gaudiya Vaishnavism, whose 16th-century founder, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534), rediscovered a part of the work, the 62 verses of chapter five, which had previously been lost for a few centuries, at the Adikesava Perumal Temple, Kanyakumari, in South India.

[1] Mitsunori Matsubara, in his Pañcarātra Saṁhitās and Early Vaisṇava Theology dates the text at c.1300 CE.

In 1970, George Harrison produced a modern recording of these prayers performed by devotees of the Radha Krishna Temple in London.

This prayer was sung by Yamunā Devi, a disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

The recovered fragment of the Brahma Samhita commences at the fifth chapter, whose first verse states: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva kāraṇa kāraṇam This translates to: Krishna, who is known as Govinda, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.