Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.64

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(v) Vaiṣṇava Theology: (a-e) commentaries on the Gopāla-tāpanī-upaniṣad, on the *Brahma-saṃhitā*,⁴ on the Yoga-sāra-stava of the Padma-purāṇa, on the Gāyatrī-māhātmya of the Agni-purāṇa,⁵ and on the sections on Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-pada-cihna of the Padma-purāṇa. (f) a commentary, entitled *Krama-sandarbha*, on the Śrīmad-bhāgavata, included in the Murshidabad edition of the text. (g) An abridgment (Laghu) of Sanātana's Vaiṣṇava-toṣaṇī commentary on the 10th Skandha of the Bhāgavata, prepared at the latter's command.⁶ (vi) Vaiṣṇava Philosophy : *Bhāgavata-samdarbha*, consisting of six elaborate Samdarbhas, viz. *Tattva-*, *Bhagavat-*, *Paramātma-*, *Kṛṣṇa-*, *Bhakti-* and *Prīti-*¹ which give the first systematic exposition of the entire philosophical dogmatics of the Bengal school. (*b*) *Sarva-samvādinī*, a brief exposition on the first four of the above Samdarbhas (*Anuvyākhyā*),² but really a summary and supplement to them. No mention is made of this work in the *Bhakti-ratnākara* list of Jīva's works, but neither this list nor that of Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, as indicated by the word *ādayaḥ* has any pretension to being exhaustive.³