Today is the auspicious disappearance day of Srila Kaliya Krishna Das.
Srila Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura was a great Vaishnava acharya during Lord Caitanya’s Period.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā 11.37:
“The twenty-second devotee of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu was Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, who was the ninth cowherd boy. He was a first-class Vaiṣṇava and did not know anything beyond Nityānanda Prabhu.”
In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (132), it is said that Kala Krsnadasa, who was also known as Kaliya Krsnadasa, was formerly a gopa (cowherd boy) of the name Lavanga. He was one of the twelve cowherd boys.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya:
“Kaliya Krsnadasa had his headquarters in a village named Akaihata, which is situated in the district of Burdwan within the jurisdiction of the post office and police station of Katwa.
It is situated on the road to Navadvipa.
To reach Akaihata, one has to go from the Byandel junction station to the Katwa railway station and then go about two miles, or one has to get off at the Danihata station and from there go one mile.
The village of Akaihata is very small. In the month of Caitra, on the day of Varuni, there is a festival commemorating the disappearance day of Kala Krsnadasa.”
Sri Krishna Dasa Kaviraja Goswami writes (CC Adi 11.37):
“Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura was one of the principle devotees of Nityananda Prabhu.
He knew nothing other than the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Prabhu.
Kavi Karnapura’s Gaura-Ganodesha-Dipika, he was one of the 12 gopals in Vrindavana, and in the pastimes of Krishna in Vrindavana was known as Labhanga, one of Krishna’s cowherd boy friends.
His birthplace is in the Bardhaman (Burdwan) district of West Bengal within a short distance from the Railway station at Katwa, at the village called Akai Hatta.
This village is situated on the old king’s road between Nabadwipa and Katwa. Akai Hatta is a very small village.
On the twelfth day of the dark moon in the month of Caitra, Sri Kaliya Krishna Dasa Thakura disappeared.
This is not the same Kaliya Krishna dasa who accompanied Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to South India.