Vishwa Guru Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada writes about Kashishvara Pandita on Sri Chaitanya charitamrita as follows:
Kashishvara Goswami was one of the contemporaries of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who was with the Lord in Jagannatha Puri. Also known as Kashishvara Pandita, he was a disciple of Ishvara Puri and son of Vāsudeva Bhattacarya, who belonged to the dynasty of Kāñjilāla Kānu. His surname was Chaudhuri. His nephew, his sister’s son, who was named Rudra Pandita, was the original priest of Vallabhapura, which is situated about one mile from the Sriramapura railway station in the village of Catara. Installed there are the Deities of Radha-Govinda and Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Kashishvara Goswami was a very strong man, and therefore when Lord Chaitanya visited the temple of Jagannatha, he used to protect the Lord from the crowds. Another of his duties was to distribute prasada to the devotees after kirtana.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura also visited this temple at Vallabhapura. At that time the person in charge was a Shaivite, Sri Shivacandra Chaudhuri, who was a descendant of Kashishvara Goswami’s brother. In Vallabhapura there was a permanent arrangement to cook nine kilos of rice, vegetables and other foodstuffs, and near the village there is sufficient land, which belongs to the Deity, on which this rice was grown. Unfortunately, the descendants of Kashishvara Goswami’s brother have sold a major portion of this land, and therefore the Deity worship has now been hampered.
It is said in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā that the servant of Krishna in Vrindavana named Bhringara descended as Kashishvara Goswami during the pastimes of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. In our householder life we also sometimes visited this temple of Vallabhapura and took prasada there at noon. The Deities of this temple, Sri Sri Radha-Govinda and the Gauranga vigraha, are extremely beautiful. Near Vallabhapura is another beautiful temple of Jagannatha. We sometimes used to take prasada in this Jagannatha temple also. These two temples are situated within a one mile-radius of the Sriramapura railway station, near Calcutta.
