Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.75

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which now became possessed of the original books to work upon. Returning to Bengal, he set up a dialectic school of Navya Nyāya at Navadvīpa; but his fame is said to have been eclipsed by that of his more distinguished pupil, Raghunātha Śiromaṇi, the great champion of the Bengal school of Logic.¹ This legend, however, is also told in connexion with Raghunātha Śiromaṇi himself, and there is nothing to show that Raghunātha was ever a pupil of Vāsudeva. Vāsudeva was perhaps more of a Vedāntist than a Naiyāyika, as his learned commentary on Lakṣmīdhara's *Advaita-makaranda*, written at Puri, indicates; and Murāri, Kavikarṇapūra and Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja represent him chiefly as teaching Vedānta at Puri. Jayānanda tells us that Vāsudeva was driven from Navadvīpa by Muhammadan persecution and settled at Puri, where he passed the closing years of his life under the patronage of Gajapati Pratāparudra of Orissa.²