Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.5

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family of Rūpa and Sanātana is thus given by Jīva. There was a prince of Karṇāṭa, named Sarvajña Jagadguru of the Bharadvāja-gotra of Brahmans, who is said to have added to his other princely qualities a knowledge of the three Vedas. His son Aniruddha, who succeeded him, was also a renowned prince, but he fancied only the Yajur-veda. Of Aniruddha's two sons, Rūpeśvara and Harihara, by his two wives, the first became an accomplished scholar, but the second took to evil ways and turned out his elder brother from his principality. Rūpeśvara, who fled to some country in the east, had a son, named Padmanābha, who was well versed in the Yajur-veda and the Upaniṣads. Padmanābha settled on the banks of the Ganges at Navahaṭṭa (modern Naihati, according to the *Bhakti-ratnākara*), performed a Yajña (sacrifice) and had five sons, of whom Mukunda was the youngest. On account of a quarrel with his relations Mukunda left Navahaṭṭa and went to Vaṅga (East Bengal) settling, according to the *Bhakti-ratnākara*, at Fatoyabad, near Jessore, under the Bāklā Candradvīpa Pergunna. Mukunda had a son named Kumāra. Kumāra appears to have several sons of whom we are concerned here with three; to them Caitanya gave the names of Sanātana, Rūpa and Anupama.¹