Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.76

c6.s2.76

¹ It is noteworthy that Raghunātha, in his *Anumāna-dīdhiti* quotes and refutes *sārvabhauma-mata*.—A work on Nyāya by Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma, called *Samāsa-vāda*, is mentioned in Aufrecht i, 698 a, but the work is now known to have been composed by Rāmabhadra Sārvabhauma. Tradition ascribes to him a *Sārvabhauma-nirukti*, apparently a glossorial commentary, on the *Tattva-cintāmaṇi*; but nothing is known about this alleged work. Gopinath Kaviraj (*op. cit.*, p. 63), however, informs us that Vāsudeva's commentary on the *Tattva-cintāmaṇi*, called *Sārāvalī*, is available only in fragments. The MS does not contain the names of the work or the author; but D. C. Bhattacharya (*loc. cit.*) believes that the author was Vāsudeva Sārvabhauma, and conjectures the real name of the work to have been *Anumāna-maṇi-parīkṣā*.