यस्य सङ्गबलतोऽद्भुता
मया मौक्तिकोत्तमकथा प्रचारिता ।
तस्य कृष्णकविभूपतेर्व्रजे
सङ्गतिर्भवतु मे भवे भवे ॥
yasya saṅga-balato’dbhutā
mayā mauktikottama-kathā pracāritā |
tasya kṛṣṇa-kavi-bhūpater vraje
saṅgatir bhavatu me bhave bhave ||
(Muktā-carita; cited in the Daśa-śloki-bhāṣya of Rādhā Kṛṣṇa Dāsa Gosvāmī)
“Birth after birth, in Vraja let me have the companionship of Kṛṣṇa [Dāsa] the king (rājā) of poets (kavi), on the strength of whose association this astonishing and superlative narration about pearls [i.e., this composition entitled Muktā-carita] has been composed by me.”