The Chandimangalkavya's earliest poet was Manik Datta, who probably hailed from Maldaha and pre-dated Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Swami Prakashanand Saraswati was of the lineage of the great Vashnavite sage of West Bengal Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534).
On the left altar is a Murti of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with Nityananda, and of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and his spiritual teacher Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura.
Religious personality Swami Nigamananda having been born in this village had shown the world, the path of Gyana(ज्ञान)-Shankara and Prema( प्रेम) -Gouranga.
Srivasa Thakura, close associate of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and a member of the Pancha Tattva
Vrindavana Dasa Thakura (1507–1589), author of the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the biography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in the Bengali language
He recited his Brajabuli poems to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, when he first met him on the bank of river Godavari at Rajahmundry, southern provincial capital of Kingdom of Odisha in 1511–12.