Hit Harivansh Goswami is born around 1500. He is the founder of the Radha-Ballabha-line, and is known for his emotional poetry about Radha and Krishna. He was born in the village of Bad, about 10 km from Mathura, on the Mathura-Agra Road, in Braja Mandala. His father was a well-known astrologer and was engaged by the Mughal emperor. Hit Harivansh was married at the age of 16 and had three sons. He renounced family life at the age of 32 and started for Vrindavana. On the way he stopped in a village where a brahmana named Atmadeva was worshiping the Deity of Radha Ballabha. Atmadeva had two daughters of marriageable age. In a dream Atmadeva was directed to give the Deity to Hit Harivansh and also that his daughter should be married to him.
Hit Harivansh then built a hermitage near Seva Kunja in Vrindavana and installed the Deity of Radha-Ballabha there. He so founded the popular Radha-Vallabha-temple in Vrindavana.
The translation and the commentaries of Pratibha Goswami are soaked with the divine ecstatic love to Godhead. She is a descendent of the famous Krishna-poet Jayadeva Goswami who wrote his Gita Govinda in the 13th century. Pratibha lived in the holy town of Vrindavan since her birth.