Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c7.s5.9

c7.s5.9

¹ B. Majumdar, *op. cit.*, pp. 127 and 131, is certainly incorrect in thinking that all the six persons to whom Sanātana pays homage in the two stanzas (भट्टाचार्यं सार्वभौमं विद्यावाचस्पतीन् गुरून् । वन्दे विद्याभूषणं च गौडदेशविभूषणम् ॥ वन्दे श्रीपरमानन्दभट्टाचार्यं रसप्रियम् । रामभद्रं तथा वागीविलासं चोपदेशकम् ॥) were all his Gurus; for the word *gurūn* in the passage expressly qualifies *vidyāvācaspatīn* only, and the plural is honorific. Majumdar holds that Caitanya himself was Sanātana's Dikṣā-guru; this may have been so, but the passages cited in support are hardly conclusive.