Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s4.38

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verse¹ names the author and the work, and informs us that the commentator was a Drāviḍa Brahman. But in one of the closing verses,² which, however, is not quoted by Mahohara, the commentator informs us that he was the son of Harivaṃśa Bhaṭṭa and grandson of Nṛsiṃha of the Drāviḍa country!³ Narahari, Nityānanda and Manohara, we have seen, give an entirely different ancestry, and it is needless to add that no such description occurs in the *Hari-bhakti-vilāsa*. The conclusion is, therefore, inevitable that *either* this commentator is a different person, *or*, if the two Gopāla Bhaṭṭas are (following Narahari and Manohara) to be taken as identical, then nothing remains of the Trimalla-Veṅkaṭa-Prabodhānanda legend! Of this commentary nothing is said in other Bengal Vaiṣṇava works.⁴