Disciplic succession (CC and other books)

Expressions researched:
"Disciplic Succession" |"Disciplic Successions"

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

CC Adi-lila

CC Adi Introduction: In the beginning of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī writes, “I offer my respects to my spiritual masters.” He uses the plural here to indicate the disciplic succession. He offers obeisances not to his spiritual master alone but to the whole paramparā, the chain of disciplic succession beginning with Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Thus the author addresses the guru in the plural to show the highest respect for all his predecessor spiritual masters.