Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c5.s2.11

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¹ As maintained by Dinesh Chandra Sen in his three works on Bengal Vaiṣṇavism, and repeated by Kennedy in his *Caitanya Movement* (Oxford University Press, 1925). Jiva Gosvāmin in his *Sarva-saṃvādinī* directly disclaims connexion of the Bengal school with the views of all other Sampradāyas (p. 149, ed. Vaṅgiya Sāhitya Pariṣad). Ānandin in his commentary on Prabodhānanda's *Caitanya-candrāmṛta* claims that Caitanya himself and his followers were the founders of the Bengal Sampradāya and owed nothing to the Gurus of any other Sampradāya (*Śrīkṛṣṇa caitanya-mahāprabhuḥ svayaṃ bhagavān, saṃpradāya-pravartakaś tatparyādi eva, sāmpradāyikā guravo nānye*). See S. K. De, *Nānā-nibandha*, Calcutta 1953, pp. 62-69.