Krishnadas Shama was a Goan author belonging to the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin community.
According to verses (ovis) 245–250 of this work, it was commenced on 25 April 1526, or Vaishakh Shukla of shake 1448 according to the Hindu calendar.
The original manuscript of this work was discovered by Mariano Saldanha in the Public Library of Braga in Portugal (first 130 pp.
It is a rendering of the Tenth canto (Adhyaya) of the Bhagavata Purana and may be the first extant prose work by a Goan in the Marathi language.
[1] [2] [3] The latest building of the Goa State Central Library in Panjim was dedicated to Shama in 2011.