Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s3.55

c9.s3.55

These are the principal theological dogmas of the Bengal school of Vaiṣṇavism. The works mentioned above either give a poetical account of them in the form of imaginary narratives, or set them forth in the form of precise and systematic statements, supported by illustrative or explanatory Purāṇic texts; but they hardly attempt any elaborate philosophical justification of them. Such an attempt, however, is made in the six Saṃdarbhas of Jīva Gosvāmin, with its supplementary Sarva-saṃvādinī, as well as incidentally in his Krama-saṃdarbha commentary on the Śrīmad-bhāgavata. We now turn to these six Saṃdarbhas and their supplementary works.