"[4] Nityananda was born to a religious Bengali Brahmin called Pandit Hadai, and his wife, Padmavati,[5] in Ekachakra[6] around 1474.
His devotion and great talent for singing Vaishnava hymns (bhajan) were apparent from a very early age.
[citation needed] At the age of thirteen, Nityananda left home with a travelling renunciate (sannyasi) known as Lakshmipati Tirtha.
[7] Nityananda married two daughters of Suryadasa Sarakhela: Vasudha and Jahnava Devi with the help of Uddharan Dutta Thakura of Saptogram.
He had a son, Virachandra Goswami or Virabhadra (who was later initiated to Vaishnava rites by his co-mother Jahnava Devi) and a daughter, Ganga, by his first wife, Vasudha.