Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.84

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¹ Sārvabhauma is reported to have acknowledged: तर्कशास्त्रे जड आमि म्लेच्छ लौहदंड । क्षमा कराइले तुमि प्रताप प्रचण्ड ॥ (C-C. Madhya vi. 214). Kavikarṇapūra's accounts, both in his drama and in his poem, also suggest a similar process, in spite of miracle and extravagant description.—At the time when Sārvabhauma wrote his commentary on Advaita-makaranda, which is distinctly Advaita Vedāntic, he could not have accepted Caitanya's dualistic faith. In this work he refers to the vanquishing of Kṛṣṇa-rāya of Karṇāṭa by his patron Gajapati Pratāparudra of Orissa; but Kṛṣṇa-rāya did not come to the throne till 1510 A.D., and his expedition against Orissa did not begin till 1513, so that the work could not have been composed before this date. And yet the biographies of Caitanya represent Sārvabhauma's conversion to have occurred at about 1510 A.D., immediately after Caitanya's arrival at Puri!—It should also be noted that Sārvabhauma's son, Jaleśvara Vāhinīpati, author of Śabdālokoddyota on Pakṣadhara's Āloka, and his grandson Svapneśvara, author of the well known Bhāṣya on the Sāṇḍilya-sūtra (in which the genealogy is given), do not appear to have accepted Caitanyism.