Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.22

c6.s2.22

While Viśvambhara was still a student his father died. His elder brother having become a Saṃnyāsin shortly before this, the burden of the household fell on his young shoulders. He married Lakṣmī, daughter of Vallabha Ācārya,¹ a scholar of Navadvīpa, became a householder, set up a Sanskrit school (*tol*) like most learned Brahmans of his time, under the patronage of one Mukunda Saṃjaya, and began to receive pupils. His dialectic exploits of the period are made much of in his two orthodox biographies, but the descriptions of his scholastic triumphs are obviously exaggerated and sometimes