Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c10.s2.7

c10.s2.7

He refers to Aniruddha Bhaṭṭa, Bhīma Bhaṭṭa, Govindānanda, Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, Bhavadeva and the learned Drāviḍa Paṇḍits as authors of Vedic Paddhatis for the use of the Karmins; and he adds that he has drawn upon these Paddhatis, as well as upon the Veda, Purāṇa, Dharma-śāstra, Āgama, Yāmala and other sources. We are told that the author has taken sufficient care to avoid the worship of ancestors (Pitṛs) and inferior deities so that no offence with regard to the service and name of the Bhagavat (Sevā- and Nāma-Aparādha) could be committed by the Ekantin Kṛṣṇa-worshipping householders for whom the work is specially meant. He further adds, as a true Vaiṣṇava should do, that he records his name as the author of this work, not through egotism (Ahaṃkāra), but at the command of the pious men of his own order. No such apology or declaration of modesty, however, occurs in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa.